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Back To School Leadership

Lead Change Blog

After working with parents, faculty and the board a strategy was crafted to transform the college into an extraordinary center for holistic education committed to helping its graduates move on to advance with both success and significance. And, the operating budget has climbed from $38M to $178M. They call it a branding statement. “At

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

Deep Work : Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport To thrive in the new economy—the current information economy—you need to master these two core abilities: 1. What separates effective communicators from truly successful persuaders? The ability to quickly master hard things. Blog Post ).

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Myths of the Gig Economy, Corrected

Harvard Business Review

.” Indeed, the gig economy has not only turned millions of Americans into contractors, but it’s given the more successful entrepreneurs the tools to grow even faster. Most workers are still grabbing extra hours the old-fashioned way — tending bar or temp work on the side — not by being digitally summoned.

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Make Your Organization Anti-Fragile

Harvard Business Review

Many large, successful organizations are more fragile than they seem. Start-ups tend to be anti-fragile; large, successful organizations tend to be fragile. If lucky, a start-up grows and develops a success formula. It''s a great success story, but there''s a catch. They break under stress. and Washington Mutual?

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How the Market Ruined Twitter

Harvard Business Review

The quote comes from author, tech thinker, and now public-TV personality Steven Johnson: “The history of the Internet suggests that there have been cool Web sites that go in and out of fashion and then there have been open standards that become plumbing,” he told David Carr of The New York Times in January 2010.

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The Mainstreaming of Augmented Reality: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

The launch of Pokémon Go this summer was a huge success—both for the gaming industry and for Augmented Reality (AR). But it is just as important to ask: What has contributed to AR’s increasing success? Much more successful apps are those that can offer a more seamless experience.

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How Local Context Shapes Digital Business Abroad

Harvard Business Review

Minguela had observed the rapid success of the U.S.-based Rocket Internet’s core business model is replicating successful business ideas globally, matching the latest-and-greatest e-commerce ideas to the biggest untapped markets. What do I mean by nondigital components? Closely study the type of network effects involved.