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Guest Blogger Nathan Zeldes: Why and How to Communicate Across Company Lines

leaderCommunicator

If you’re truly fearless, negotiate collaborations with a number of other companies (and, possibly, academic research groups) where you will all cooperate to develop new insight. This is difficult but doable; I’ve once managed to pull together eight large organizations to create a lively knowledge exchange consortium for IT know-how.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. Its practitioners are the modernization of the much-maligned yet depended-upon middle manager. Here’s the list.

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March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Welcome to the March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival! Leadership Development – a Key Strategy in Change Management , by Jennifer V. In Stuck in the Middle , Mary Ila Ward of The Point offers suggestions to C Level executives for empowering middle managers. Leadership Practices and Approaches.

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The June 3rd, 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Well, here''s your monthly dose of "speed leadership development". Mary Ila Ward from The Point: Sound Advice for Career and Leadership Development presents Are your employees on the border of ''boredom and anxiety''? Take action, plan for it.”.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. These include administrative or middle management functions, which have historically provided jobs for the middle class. Managers should encourage their staff to suggest and experiment with digital solutions, and allow them to adapt these into their work practices.

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Where There’s No Margin for Toxic Leadership

Harvard Business Review

By 2013, the CEO, his business partner and an early private equity investor received an offer to sell some of their shares to a large company. That requires mentoring and developing middle managers as well as building a network of external candidates in critical functional areas.

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Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work

Harvard Business Review

In 2013 we embedded ourselves in a women’s professional development program at a large nonprofit organization in the U.S. Most decided to join the professional development program for its networking and educational opportunities, but many participants cited the chance to contribute to research as an added perk.