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Favorites of 2013–Team Building and Leadership Articles

Mike Cardus

With the end of the year approaching, this week is great to share some of my favorites of 2013. Favorite Team Building & Leadership Articles 2013. Some good, some OK, some crap…Below are my favorite articles from 2013. If you consistently overload your best people with “important projects” three things might happen.

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The Global Fight For Cloud Supremacy

The Horizons Tracker

leading to a projected market of $331 billion by 2022. The strategies of the major players are nicely chronicled in a recent case study written by French business school INSEAD. . Google was even later to the party, with its Cloud Platform not launched until 2013. Divergent strategies.

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Five Ways Leaders Turns Doubters into Doers

Chart Your Course

Effective June 2013, all employees were required to work in the office. Innovation has always been what makes good businesses great. And innovation does not happen without change and risk. Your business is adding a new time-management system, which requires employees to log their hours on specific projects.

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How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market

Harvard Business Review

A case study we just published on Samsung’s European innovation team offers some helpful insights. It details how in 2010, Samsung set up a small consumer-focused innovation team in London, headed by Luke Mansfield. Rather, it is to position themselves to create disruptive innovation. What do you do?

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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. From early on, Google employees were encouraged to spend a significant portion of their time on interesting side projects, with the idea that some of these projects would become new products. How Google manages.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business Review

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. In other words, leadership development begins with a real business challenge that leaders need to solve, instead of with a hypothetical case study or simulation.