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5 Must-read Leadership Books for Women Leaders

HR Digest

We bring you a list of books that women entrepreneurs must read to find the right balance between leadership and ownership of self. The same goes for women in leadership roles. Leadership qualities are not gender-based but rather on your personality traits, strengths, and superior intellect. by Ryan Holiday.

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Tribal or Transformational? How to grow your startup when new business rolls in

Strategy Driven

As CEO and founder of two of the fastest growing digital advertising companies in the country, I’ve had to make that decision twice. We used the tribal concept when we created a new video-focused advertising company, AdKarma. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Don’t forget that business is a leap of faith.

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The Innovation Mindset in Action: Jerry Buss

Harvard Business Review

Innovators think and do things differently in order to achieve extraordinary success. They are found not just in the world of business, although they do have strong leadership qualities and excellent business sense as a common core. Regardless of where they start, innovators persist till they successfully change the game.

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Why Hippies Make Great Business Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Michael Klassen : After three decades of working in marketing, I thought I had heard or read nearly every story of innovation and entrepreneurship out there. Today we fondly refer to these extraordinary American innovators as Haight-Ashbury hippies. Who were these people and how did they do it? How did they do it?

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business Review

If innovation is a key strategic priority, does your organizational structure enable creative collaboration, risk-taking, and knowledge sharing? Each state poses a different leadership challenge. Superior technical innovation is at the heart of its strategy and its organizational design.

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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking. Your leadership is crucial. Economy Execution Leadership'

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

With the coming of the automobile and national radio advertising, James C. In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. Competition Leadership Retail'

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