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Leading Teams Toward Success Using People, Products, and Profits

Leading Blog

World class products and services don't create themselves. Projects are always short. Careers can be short or long. and his first book, This Is Rage: A Novel of Silicon Valley and Other Madness , was published in 2013 by The Story Plant. Repeating success is about the journey. Leading is about tone and substance.

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Get Your Passion Project Moving Without Quitting Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

What’s the best way to get your passion project moving? ” Next, make a timeline based on what you think you can reasonably accomplish toward your project in the time you have. As you chip away on your project, continue to give your job the attention it needs. How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career.

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Why IBM Gives Top Employees a Month to Do Service Abroad

Harvard Business Review

“Eight out of 10 participants in the Corporate Service Corps program say it significantly increases the likelihood of them completing their career at IBM,” Stanley Litow, VP of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs, told us. So far, IBMers have completed over 1,000 projects. She’s volunteered at Girls Inc.,

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Why IBM Gives Top Employees a Month to Do Service Abroad

Harvard Business Review

“Eight out of 10 participants in the Corporate Service Corps program say it significantly increases the likelihood of them completing their career at IBM,” Stanley Litow, VP of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs, told us. So far, IBMers have completed over 1,000 projects. She’s volunteered at Girls Inc.,

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When to Stick with Something — and When to Quit

Harvard Business Review

” But some disagreed, saying Davis was “ a goddamn working class hero.” A recent study of the careers of nearly 29,000 artists, filmmakers, and scientists found that most of them had a hot streak in their career when their work received wide acclaim. Source: Carsten Worsch ET AL.,

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Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work

Harvard Business Review

Yet when women try to make themselves more visible, they can face backlash for violating expectations about how women should behave, and risk losing their hard-won career gains. In 2013 we embedded ourselves in a women’s professional development program at a large nonprofit organization in the U.S. to find out.

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Why and How to Build an In-House Consulting Team

Harvard Business Review

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction. Win on merit.