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LeadershipNow 140: August 2013 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from August 2013 that you might have missed: The Future of Work Part II: 10 Tips For Professionals by @odesk. Kevin Roberts: The biggest constraint on what students can do is what they think they can do. From @KevinEikenberry Innovation Requires Structure. from @wallybock.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. Satya Nadella.

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2014 Compilation

Leading Blog

Leadership: A Career Choice or a Constraint? Why does culture matter to innovation? From @wallybock > Looking Back at 2013 and Ahead to 2014. Noonan: Our Selfish ''Public Servants''. From Kevin Roberts Inner, Outer, Other – The Focus of a Leader. Accountability : If It Is To Be, It’s Up To Me by @LollyDaskal. collinsrod.

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

Tanveer Naseer

Blinded by presumptions about the value of their status and unaware of the cultural and status constraints under which subordinates may labor, leaders intent on speed and efficiency often miss essential information. See “ Daniel Pink’s New Pitch ”, by Theodore Kinni, strategy+business magazine, Autumn 2013.) and leave it at that.

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A Feminine Leadership Way of Doing Things

Coaching Tip

A passage in an Eileen Fisher brochure entitled "Simply to Be Ourselves": The underlying philosophy of our design--no constraints, freedom of expression--extends to the company itself, which is run in a loosely structured manner that allows for an open exchange of ideas. Source: The New Yorker, September 23, 2013.

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

in 2013, compared to 2.5% It’s an argument that Haas Business School’s Henry Chesborough wholly agrees with, and outlines the case for a more open way of innovating as the solution to this productivity paradox in his latest book, Open Innovation Results. of total NHS spending devoted to the adoption of innovation.

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Where the Digital Economy Is Moving the Fastest

Harvard Business Review

During the summer of 2014 alone $3 billion poured into India’s e-commerce sector, where, in addition to local innovators like Flipkart and Snapdeal, there are nearly 200 digital commerce startups flush with private investment and venture capital funds. Even Amazon localized its approach in India to offer COD as a service.