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LeadershipNow 140: December 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

steveroesler: 6 Important Marketing Trends to Watch in 2012 : The World :: American Express OPEN Forum. Gary Hamel: "Give someone monarch-like authority, and sooner or later there will be a royal screw-up." From @KevinEikenberry: Five New Habits to Help You Reach Your Goals Faster. Read >> Leaders Are Master Learners by @drbret.

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Bureaucracy Is Keeping Health Care from Getting Better

Harvard Business Review

In a recent article , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini detail the toll that growing bureaucracy is taking across industries. Hamel and Zanini declare that there is “no map to disassembling bureaucracy.” Kelvin Murray/Getty Images. What about solutions? ” I beg to differ. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care.

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The Power of Intent

Harvard Business Review

Goals and vision are shared as carefully curated documents, or through great speeches created by well-oiled communications machines. In such scenarios the "I don't have the right answers for you, but let's march ahead and discover how can we get to our goals faster" articulation is more powerful than rhetoric.

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The Internet Is Finally Forcing Management to Care About People

Harvard Business Review

It includes Mary Parker Follett (1920s), Elton Mayo and Chester Barnard (1930s), Abraham Maslow (1940s), Douglas McGregor (1960s), Peter Drucker (1970s), Peters and Waterman (1980s), Katzenbach and Smith (1990s), and Gary Hamel (2000s). Profits and share price increases are the result, not the goal of a firm’s activities.

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Patagonia's Provocative Black Friday Campaign

Harvard Business Review

Sisodia , he states that mission-led businesses outperform the market by an astounding 9:1 ratio (that's innovation by any measure at 1111%). These sentiments are backed up by sophisticated and systemic efforts aimed at achieving specific goals including one of the most robust Carbon Footprint analyses I've ever seen.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

Until now, the goal has been to standardize and optimize transactions among these components to reduce costs and achieve efficiency. In the same way that markets have always outperformed command economies, the transactional efficiencies possibly lost are more than made up for by the ecosystems value effectiveness.

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Is a Well-Lived Life Worth Anything?

Harvard Business Review

Now consider a different vision: maybe crafting a fine meal, to be accompanied by local, award-winning microbrewed beer your friends have brought over, and then walking back to the studio where you're designing a building whose goal is nothing less than rivaling the Sagrada Familia.

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