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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001.

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‘Managers as Mentors’ Celebrates Publication Anniversary

Marshall Goldsmith

” Leadership guru Jim Kouzes called the book, “The essential handbook for all those who are trusted advisors to aspiring leaders.” ” Mike Krzyzewski, head men’s basketball coach at Duke University and the 2010 NCAA champs, calls it “a practical yet powerful book.”

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The Failure of “The Livonia Philosophy” at my GM Plant

Deming Institute

One of my colleagues gave me a copy of a “Livonia Philosophy” handbook that was gathering dust, and I’ve kept to this day. Mark also co-authored Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements, which was released in June 2012 and also a Shingo Research Award recipient in 2013.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. Baldoni also provides an appendix that works as a handbook to guide you in this. Isaacson makes the point that innovation happens in the real world by teams and not lone geniuses. A S LEADERS we must learn and grow.

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Research: Your Firm Probably Isn't an Equal Opportunity Employer

Harvard Business Review

Anyone who has hiring responsibilities in 2013 would like to think that the U.S. How does your company innovate and achieve revenue or productivity gains? Your company no doubt has a strong equal opportunity commitment in your employee handbook and on the company website. is tackling diversity head-on.

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Improve Decision-Making With Help From the Crowd

Harvard Business Review

IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014. They’ve been boss-free since 1996. “We