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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

The context we lead in requires nothing short of radical personal development. Leaders Eat Last : Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don''t by Simon Sinek The title of the book— Leaders Eat Last —comes from a conversation with a Marine Corps general. All of the following titles cover an aspect of this need. Blog Post ).

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What’s the Purpose of Companies in the Age of AI?

Harvard Business Review

If computer technology has the capacity to simplify and streamline transaction costs, more and more work can be done through these smart-contract arrangements, making traditional human-managed firms obsolete. Firms create value by managing tensions between competing priorities. Here are four areas where firms excel.

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India's Decade of Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

Biocon also sources drug molecules from other partners, especially from developing countries, such as the Cuba-based Center of Molecular Immunology (CMI). The vision and purpose of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw , chairman and managing director of Biocon, is to deliver affordable drugs to the masses in both India and other markets.

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