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Eric Jacobson - Untitled Article

Eric Jacobson

But it also includes a real humility on the part of leaders and an openness to learning from others – whether that’s walking through agile working labs and asking people what they’re doing to visiting companies to understand how they operate to simply reading interesting books. He is based in Copenhagen.

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How Digital Winners Set Direction, Learn, And Adapt

Eric Jacobson

But it also includes a real humility on the part of leaders and an openness to learning from others – whether that’s walking through agile working labs and asking people what they’re doing to visiting companies to understand how they operate to simply reading interesting books. He is based in Copenhagen.

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Building Partnerships

Marshall Goldsmith

The changing role of leadership will mean that the relationship between managers and direct reports will have to change in both directions. Many leaders will be operating more like the managing director of a consulting firm. The same trend is occurring in pharmaceuticals and telecommunications. Employee Engagement Leadership'

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How Companies Succeed By Engaging Radically With Society

Eric Jacobson

To achieve " connected leadership " you must: Map your world -- Analyze stakeholders as precisely as your customers, understand trends and discontinuitites, and quantify the value at stake from external relationships. Apply world-class management to traditionally "soft" societal topics.

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Seven Ways CEOs and Investors Can Promote the Long Term

Harvard Business Review

Not long ago, the chief executive of a global telecommunications firm shared with me his frustration that "even in a meeting with the CEO, most institutional investors seek only granular data points to plug into their models. This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System.