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7 Qualities Of Outstanding Leaders

Lead Change Blog

They make sure that marketing efforts are producing enough leads and that sales managers are converting a reasonable percentage of these leads into sales. While employees are hired to manage the diverse tasks in a business, leaders also need to serve employees to do their work well. 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. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Formerly SVP in charge of wireless communication. 100 COACHES. Non-profit CEOs.

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How Mobile Phones Can Transform Healthcare

Harvard Business Review

billion cell phone users around the globe, and 90 percent of the world's population is covered by a commercial wireless signal. The rapid expansion of wireless networks represents a particularly exciting opportunity to reach those who are currently isolated by distance and lack of communication, using " mHealth " (mobile health) programs.

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A Short History of Radio Explains the iPhone’s Success

Harvard Business Review

The iPhone roared into the marketplace 10 years ago today, and overwhelmed the wireless world. Wireless is the same, but without the cat. Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result. The smartphone’s iconic social significance has been duly noted. Then he paused.

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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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New Research: Where the Talent Wars Are Hottest

Harvard Business Review

Given the forecasts of uncertain global economic growth, we might expect companies to hold off from hiring new employees and to limit whatever international hiring they do to emerging markets. We also find that companies in developed areas plan to hire in other developed regions (e.g., Asia into North America). Methodology.

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Google Couldn’t Survive with One Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Project Loon is such a moonshot project, providing internet access to remote regions by equipping balloons with wireless capabilities. As parts of a business portfolio grow and develop, different approaches to strategy and execution may be needed. Many have already built maturing, multi-billion dollar core businesses, however.