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How Should Change Leadership and Common Good Intersect?

Thin Difference

Nothing around us stays static, so change leadership is a necessity. Change for the sake of change is not good leadership. Change leadership and common good need a tighter intersection. Change leadership and common good create an interesting intersection. Corporate Citizenship and Change Leadership.

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Why Your Company Should Use the Kickstarter Model to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

If you''ve got a genuinely creative idea — or even a " me, too with a twist " — Kickstarter''s "crowd funding" platform offers a genuinely innovative way to finance creativity and innovation. Why aren''t leaders tapping the crowdfunding capabilities of their own innovation ecosystems to stimulate their people and ideas?

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What A.G. Lafley's Return Means for P&G

Harvard Business Review

She holds the Ernest L. She''s an expert on strategy, innovation, and leading change. She is also Chair and Director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. She wrote the HBS cases on the P&G/Gillette merger, and when she teaches those cases, frequently invites P&G executives to her class.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. Manage costs — or add value?

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Microsoft Taxes Itself

Harvard Business Review

Pricing carbon is an excellent way to raise awareness internally before the external pressure builds. As Microsoft takes on more of its customers' operations through cloud-based services, reliance on the utility grid creates real operational and price risk (from outages and volatile prices). Risk reduction.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership. To stitch it all together meaningfully, CMOs are increasingly expected to act as general managers with P&L or shared/shadow P&L responsibility that drive revenue growth.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 11/26/12)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Austin, Richard L. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Complete Executive Karen Wright Harder Than I Thought Robert D. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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