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The Optimal Margin of Illusion

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Robert Bruce Shaw : Research into the psychology of leadership highlights the benefit of being more confident than you should be. For example, you may need someone who can challenge your thinking in regard to your firm''s strategy or a different person who does the same in regard to talent within your organization.

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How To Discover Your Organization’s Next Big Growth Opportunities

Tanveer Naseer

For example, they might say, “We’re a bank,” or “We make office furniture,” or “We’re in the pharmaceutical business.” For example, if you asked Larry Page, CEO of Google, to define his company, do you think his answer would be, “We’re a search engine”? This is quite understandable. Not very likely. This is the essential point.

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To Seize the Future, Create a Leadership Circle

Harvard Business Review

A global pharmaceutical company was about to lose the strategic advantage of several blockbuster drugs coming off patent. The hope was that the diversity of brainpower and perspectives would yield imaginative ways to outgrow the shortfall. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle. paul Garbett for HBR.

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Interviews with 59 Black Female Executives Explore Intersectional Invisibility and Strategies to Overcome It

Harvard Business Review

Black women continue to be sorely underrepresented in leadership roles in corporate America. For example, one woman said, “I’m the best choice for this job, and I’m probably not on your radar screen.” Currently, they make up 12.7% of the U.S. population, yet they represent only 1.3%

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Why The Best Hospitals Are Managed by Doctors

Harvard Business Review

Doctors were once viewed as ill-prepared for leadership roles because their selection and training led them to become “heroic lone healers.” The emphasis on patient-centered care and efficiency in the delivery of clinical outcomes means that physicians are now being prepared for leadership. ” But this is changing.

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Yes, Your Résumé Needs a Summary

Harvard Business Review

Let’s look at a few examples of powerful summaries: “Pharmaceutical marketing executive with 20 years of experience creating commercial infrastructures, growing brands, and optimizing product value throughout launch, re-launch, and sunset life cycles across all customer segments—payers, physicians, and patients.

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How Mobile Phones Can Transform Healthcare

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. For example, Sproxil has found pharmaceutical buyers for its anti-drug counterfeiting service. There are now more than 5.3