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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

This notion that a firm has a social quality — a purpose or identity — that goes beyond its economic raison d’etre is well established in the literature, from March and Simon through to Kogut and Zander. Firms create value by nurturing “unreasonable” behavior.

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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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