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7 Qualities Of Outstanding Leaders

Lead Change Blog

While employees are hired to manage the diverse tasks in a business, leaders also need to serve employees to do their work well. By championing people who have been treated with injustice or undeserved and by fighting for ideas worth developing, a leader develops clout. Good leaders serve. Service runs both ways.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. 100 COACHES.

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Five Ways to Ruin Your Innovation Process

Harvard Business Review

Most companies sabotage their own innovation processes without meaning to. Innovation is episodic. We've all seen this movie: A few people in the organization have a burning desire to foster more innovation, or a different kind of innovation, so they invent a new process. It's easy to ax innovation. What to do?

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business Review

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Morning Advantage: How to Build Worldly Leaders

Harvard Business Review

As companies struggle to develop a new generation of internationally competent leaders, many are turning to localization instead. Giving up on expatriation implies giving up on building the diverse bench of global leaders that CEOs say they require," he writes. The Wireless Industry's Growing Pains (Knowledge@Wharton).

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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America’s Leaders Need to Tell a New Story About Infrastructure

Harvard Business Review

Systems conceived and built 50-60 years ago should be reimagined for the 20 th century, whether high speed trains, innovative public transit, or technology-enabled roads and vehicles that tap the potential of sensors, smartphones, wireless networks, and Big Data for greener, cleaner, more efficient mobility.