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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

Rookie Smarts : Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work by Liz Wiseman Experience has its upside but its downside may hold us back more than we think. What we know will likely impede our ability to learn and therefore perform. We need get off the career ladder and get onto a learning curve. Blog Post ).

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The Top 5 Ways Enterprise Social Collaboration Can Boost Organizational Productivity

Strategy Driven

In addition, onboarding can become more efficient with a faster learning curve established for new employees. As managing partner, Ajay has led AgreeYa through 15 years of success, leading the company in highly competitive and complex markets and driving significant profitable growth. Consider leaving a comment!

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The Big Picture of Business: Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future.

Strategy Driven

Corporations have become extended families, thus embracing dysfunctionality, changes, modifications and learning curves. 7 Levels of Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past… Sources of Insights: Think They’ve Been There… Haven’t Yet Fully Learned from It. Hear the success stories.

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The Big Picture of Business- Anniversaries Honor the Past and Build Support for the Future

Strategy Driven

Houston Symphony Orchestra, 100th in 2013. Hear the success stories. Good opportunities to compare successes, case studies, methodologies, learning curves and insights. 7 Levels of Learning from the Past : Re-reading, reviewing and finding new nuggets in old files. Star Furniture, 100th in 2012.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Our results suggest there’s still time to climb the learning curve and compete using AI.

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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

By 2013, we had honored Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Garrett Camp of Uber, famed choreographer Twyla Tharp, and Gangnam style pop artist Psy. Potential customers for our ideas have a predilection for thinking more about what they are already thinking, of scaling the learning curve they are already on.

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Always, Always, Always Show Up

Harvard Business Review

Jules Pieri, who was recently named one of 2013’s Most Powerful Woman Entrepreneurs by Fortune Magazine, is a woman who is now reaping the rewards of standing up. A look at some of the research has convinced me that maybe Woody Allen was right , and 80% of success really is just showing up. Dreaming is at the heart of disruption.