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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

Leading Blog

When leaders and aspiring leaders seek out advice, they're often told to try harder. They argue that this popular leadership advice glosses over the most important thing you do as a leader: build others up. Dig deeper. Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education. translated into insight and advice. Who would have picked hydraulic fracturing as a disruptive business/technology breakthrough in 2002?

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Boards Aren’t the Right Way to Monitor Companies

Harvard Business Review

This idea has led to regulation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), as well as requirements by the NYSE and NASDAQ that boards have a majority of independent directors and that members on the audit committee have financial expertise. Board members often are able to provide insights that top executives may not have considered.

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Why Facebook Is a Lot Like Listerine

Harvard Business Review

Because halitosis was a topic that even “your most intimate friends habitually dodge in conversation,” the ads stepped in to offer advice. Information & technology Social platforms Technology' T]his is an issue we will have to deal with eventually.” ” I suppose that time is now.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. Won’t listen to advice.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. I was sitting there 18-and-a-half years, getting an extraordinary amount of advice from everybody under the sun. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002.