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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities. What better way to signal that you have 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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How to Drama-Proof Your Workplace

Skip Prichard

29% of Americans believe that armed rebellion might be necessary in the near future to protect their liberties from government intrusion (Cassino, Jenkins, 2013). Instead of name-calling I look at situational pressures and constraints that led to the current situation. Alston, the UN Study). My body starts to panic. Appreciation.

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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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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Financial capital was recognized as the scarce resource and its shortage a significant constraint on growth. Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions?

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

Harvard Business Review

The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011. The HITECH Act also included constraints — many about timing. Though the implementation of the HITECH Act seemed superficially like a technology project, I gradually came to realize that it was much more than that. This was a $1.2 Insight Center.

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How to Regain the Lost Art of Reflection

Harvard Business Review

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, among others, share Warren Buffett’s discipline to read extensively, safeguard time for personal development projects, and constantly seek new stimulus and perspectives. What would I do now if there were no legacy constraints on my actions? By the end of 2013, emails were reduced by 60%.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.