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What Prompts Entrepreneurs Into Social Entrepreneurship?

The Horizons Tracker

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. In total, the researchers analyzed 673 Indian entrepreneurs who had secured an exit from their startups between 2003 and 2013.

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The Biggest Firms Are Most Likely To Commit Fraud

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The researchers assessed the corporate profiles of 250 firms that were involved in financial securities fraud between 2005 and 2013. A number of clear trends emerged from the analysis. ” The analysis showed that Fortune 500 companies were four times as likely to commit fraud than their peers in the control group.

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Leadership Lessons On Listening, Questioning, And Moving Others To Act

Tanveer Naseer

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s hugely successful Lean In complements both by providing a clear example of a leader who demonstrates in action the managerial practices that both men advocate. See “ Daniel Pink’s New Pitch ”, by Theodore Kinni, strategy+business magazine, Autumn 2013.) Schein and Daniel H. Pink being the standouts.

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Favorites of 2012: Team Building & Leadership activities / simulations

Mike Cardus

These variations all focus on creating better teams that are able to work together to solve problems and innovate solutions. NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. Looking forward to meeting and working with your team and leaders in 2013. Pre-Animate. What an amazing year 2012 was! michael cardus is create-learning.

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How And When Automation May Affect Long-Haul Trucking

The Horizons Tracker

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. Our results suggest that the impacts of automation may not happen all at once.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

The manipulation, followed by careful observation and analysis, yields insight into the relationships between cause and effect, which ideally can be applied and tested in other settings. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. Any of these questions can go wrong.

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Avoiding The Technology Trap In The Future Of Work

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Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so. Adapting to change. Technology at Work. I was understandably curious therefore to see if Technology at Work 4.0