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The May, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Does social media play a role in developing high performance? I had a chance to meet Sharlyn recently at a conference, and she is the real deal! No matter the arena, business, political, religious or role models in general, the operative question these days is ‘What were he/she/they thinking’. This post explores the concept.

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Professional Women Still Marginalized

Strategy Driven

In the two decades from 1990 to 2010, our country fell from having the sixth-highest rate of female labor-force participation among 22 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, countries to 17th on the list. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

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Jeff Bezos Brings His Low-Margin Ways to Newspapers

Harvard Business Review

Way back in the first decade of the new millennium, when Craigslist seemed like the biggest threat facing newspapers, founder Craig Newmark paid visits to lots of media companies and media conferences. The Washington Post operated at a 9.2% Advertising Media Strategy' Scripps 6.9% And that''s progress, of a sort.

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Viral By Design: Teams in the Networked World

Harvard Business Review

Everyone and everything is connected or soon will be by social media, on mobile platforms, and in the cloud. But no less planned or executed than another viral blockbuster — the OMGPOP team's March 2012 breakout of Draw Something , a Pictionary-like game. Common Operating Pictures. Achieving those effects is no accident.

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India's Exploding Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. Further, we'll see a roll-out of 4G wireless services across the country in 2012. Fueling this explosion is a fact of national culture: Indians love media.

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Whole Foods Is Becoming Amazon’s Brick-and-Mortar Pricing Lab

Harvard Business Review

This step goes hand in hand with the media attention these price changes drew. Compare that to Whole Foods, whose latest 10-K filing makes far fewer references to price, and cites low prices not only as a clear risk factor, but also one which contributed to its recent declines in operating income and net income. Johnson was fired.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1