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4 Breakthrough Leadership Strategies for 2013

LDRLB

It’s usually an individual endeavor focused on fitness, friendships, or finances. 2013 represents a great opportunity to leapfrog our mental models and innovate our way to breakthroughs for ourselves, our teams, our organizations and, of course, our customers. What are the breakthroughs that we want to create and lead?

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.) I will, of course, continue with my Charity and Arts connections. Sam Walsh: At Rio Tinto, we had an innovation programme called “Mine of the Future”.

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Rethinking the Bank Branch in a Digital World

Harvard Business Review

More US bank branches closed in 2013 than ever before. Rather than going the way of Tower Records, leading banks are reinventing themselves with innovative mashups of digital technologies and physical facilities, a combination we call “digical.”. The most innovative banks have learned to provide customers with just this kind of fusion.

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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return.

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Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce, and World

Harvard Business Review

For example, the UN informs us that over the course of the 21 st century, Africa’s share of the world’s population will nearly double, from 13.1 So what can the rest of us do to spur the development of better finance, and take investment and corporate involvement to the next level? Corporate social responsibility Education Finance'

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. Army uses after-action reviews to change course, as the Pascale article explains in excellent detail.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Building Empathy. ” Inspiring Creativity.