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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Being a founder has a profound impact on your career because it provides a relevant, observable, and hard to imitate signal (the three characteristics of strong reputation signals) of your leadership capabilities. I think the most important thing that I look for [when funding a project] is really, who’s that champion?”

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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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The Best of September 2013

Harvard Business Review

Feature Triple-Strength Leadership Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Managing resource constraints, controlling health care costs, implementing smart-grid technologies — these are challenges that can’t be addressed unless government, business, and NGOs work together.

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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business Review

For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011. We reported the results publicly on a project website.

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