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A Leadership Lesson from Trappist Monks that Made Me Rich

Great Leadership By Dan

What clinched the deal for me was the almost instant friendship I had developed with the CEO of the acquiring company. Then, only two months into the deal, the venture capitalists that controlled our board pushed out my friend and replaced him with a total stranger. And it relied on a leadership lesson I learned from the monks.

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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good.

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China Can’t Be a Global Innovation Leader Unless It Does These Three Things

Harvard Business Review

Promoting innovation is also one of the eight key reform priorities in the “383” plan being circulated by the State Council’s Development Research Center. Thomson Reuters’ 2013 ranking of the world’s top 100 innovators doesn’t include a single company from China. and 1.2%, respectively, versus 20.0% in the case of, say, Japan.

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What the Scarcity of Women in Business Case Studies Really Looks Like

Harvard Business Review

Selecting the top three award-winning case studies and the best-selling cases each year for the five-year window between 2009-2013 yielded a total of 53 different case studies — some of the same cases came up as best-sellers several years in a row, and a few were both best-sellers and award-winners. who speak to each other.