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Voting ends Sept 1st for Thinkers50 Top Management Thinker Award for 2013

Marshall Goldsmith

Dear Friends, We are nearing the 2013 Thinkers50 biannual awards. Previous winners of the Top Management Thinker Award have included Peter Drucker (2001 & 2003), Michael Porter (2005), CK Prahalad (2007 & 2009), and Clayton Christensen (2011). If you haven’t yet heard of Thinkers50, here is a little background.

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What Prompts Entrepreneurs Into Social Entrepreneurship?

The Horizons Tracker

In total, the researchers analyzed 673 Indian entrepreneurs who had secured an exit from their startups between 2003 and 2013. The researchers explore what characteristics successful entrepreneurs can use in so-called “active philanthropy”, which is when they are doing more than just writing checks.

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Leadership Development "Moneyball"

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was originally published in SmartBrief on Leadership 7/25/2013: “Moneyball” was a book and movie based on Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane and his use of statistics (sabermetrics, to be precise) to get the most production out of his team by spending the least amount of money.

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Management Innovations Only Work When No One Else Is Doing Them

The Horizons Tracker

A database was created with information about team payrolls, playing success, the use of analytics in that team and the contribution of each player to the team over a prolonged period between 1985 and 2013. By 2002 it was catching on and three teams had adopted it, but by 2013, a whopping 75% had done so.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs.

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Coronavirus Crisis: Reasons for Hope During These Dark Times

The Practical Leader

Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover. In 2003, it took over a year to achieve half this information with SARS. This will “flatten the curve ” and reduce the chances of overburdening our healthcare systems.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Hogan was a partner at McKinsey & Co. In 2013 she left Netflix to become head of human resources at Coursera, and, later, Chief People Officer at Scopely, a leading player in the mobile gaming industry. and a development manager at Oracle Corp.