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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

A Beautiful Constraint : How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's Business by Adam Morgan and Mark Barden Typically we look at a constraint as a negative. But what if a constraint was the gift that opened up previously unimagined possibilities? Not in spite of the constraint, but because of it.

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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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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

In contrast, Musk cares about customer needs as well but only at a high level; he picks what he perceives as big important needs that haven’t been met because of technology constraints and is more of a “technology first” innovator. and Musk’s approach works well when there is a lot of technological uncertainty (can we build it?). “I

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The Best Jobs Go to the Best Educated People and Here is Why

Strategy Driven

However, universities, and the job market, often argue that a college degree is necessary to succeed in life and obtain a high paying job. The Competitive Job Market. It’s not necessarily that other jobs do not want to pay well, but they are unable to because of financial constraints. Consider leaving a comment!

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Where the Digital Economy Is Moving the Fastest

Harvard Business Review

By year’s end, the seven biggest emerging markets were larger than the G7 , in purchasing power parity terms. Far from Silicon Valley, Shanghai, or Singapore, a German company, Rocket Internet, has been busy launching e-commerce start-ups across a wide range of emerging and frontier markets.

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Turkey Badly Needs a Long-Term Plan for Syrian Refugees

Harvard Business Review

A 2013 survey shows the median earnings for men outside of refugee camps (where they’re not allowed to work) was $160 per month, much less than the Turkish minimum monthly wage of around $400. A long-term framework for integrating Syrian refugees is a pressing domestic policy to head off tensions like these.

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Uber-Style Talent Poaching Happens in All Industries

Harvard Business Review

The story was picked up by CNN Money , which reported that Lyft’s internal data suggesting 5,560 canceled rides between October 2013 and August 2014. Strategic talent constraints are typically described in vast interconnected global supply chains and high-tech knowledge jobs like software engineers and research scientists.