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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Leading innovator in HR for over 25 years.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

link] Anna Smith “Let the attacks begin” – The number one source for innovation/change is pissed-off people (Tom Peters). Your comment summarizes exactly how things should work as opposed to how they often do. Have a great Thanksgiving Sir. LeRoyD Amen! We are all biased. My own experience in such settings has been profound.

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Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases

Harvard Business Review

The workshops companies invest in typically teach them to constantly check their thoughts for bias. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. And sameness blocks performance and innovation. Diversity, on the other hand, spurs innovation.

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Whatever Happened to the $300 House?

Harvard Business Review

Believing that improving housing for the world’s most poor could help them break out of the vicious cycle of poverty, we issued a challenge to the design community to employ the strategies of innovation and disruptive thinking to attack this persistent problem. The workshop had four tracks: Rural House Design Prototype.

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Take a Deep Dive into These Career Goals Examples with Us

HR Digest

If you would prefer to be a leader in terms of starting and supporting projects, then your leadership goals could focus on bringing in innovation, organizing resources, and finding funding for your company projects. Planning for financial security can free you to focus your energy on other tasks without distraction.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

So Puerto Rican entrepreneurs hire consultants to badger government procurement to pay up, and in parallel they jack up their prices to finance the long receivables cycle. We see the results of this confusion in the (again, well-intentioned) US Department of Energy loans and loan guarantees for cleantech companies.

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Bringing an Entrepreneurial Mindset to the World’s Failing Systems

Harvard Business Review

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). To capture the energy created by the financial crisis to bring together people who don’t normally talk to one another to design a new financial system. The purpose?

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