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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage. Rise of the Chinese thinkers The big story in the 2013 Thinkers50 was the arrival of the first Chinese thinkers in the ranking. Ideas make a difference.

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5 Leadership Lessons I Learned by Walking the Camino de Santiago

Leading Blog

I first walked that trail – 435 miles over 29 days – in 2013 and have returned twice since. He has 20+ years of experience in corporate and government leadership, including positions as COO of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, strategy consultant with Bain & Company, and marketing executive with Capital One.

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

Tanveer Naseer

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s hugely successful Lean In complements both by providing a clear example of a leader who demonstrates in action the managerial practices that both men advocate. See “ Daniel Pink’s New Pitch ”, by Theodore Kinni, strategy+business magazine, Autumn 2013.) Schein and Daniel H. Pink being the standouts.

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5 Must-read Leadership Books for Women Leaders

HR Digest

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg hit the bestseller list with this book in 2013. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead”. by Sheryl Sandberg. This book was the result of a TED talk that Sandberg gave about how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers, and she provides ample proof in the book backing up that claim.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. That approach to linked metrics served as the basis for developing employee incentives, such as bonuses. And that really is on the backs of marketing.”

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When the Competition Is Trying to Poach Your Top Employee

Harvard Business Review

And when Garrett opened a new oyster restaurant in Boston’s Seaport in 2013, Jillian agreed to be its general manager. Jeff Francis, the COO of Copper Mobile, a Dallas-based mobile app development firm, says that poaching is “pretty common” in his business. “She came back to us,” he says.

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

Trouble was, the launch violated eBay’s well-established corporate project-development processes. Developing the Global Leader. “He allowed both ideas to be developed and tested enough, to learn and not combine them right away,” Hill says. A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections.