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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. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. Here’s the list.

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

leaderCommunicator

Better yet, in some cases this allowed me to strike alliances and mount joint projects with like-minded engineers and managers – to the benefit of all our organizations. Many factors may conspire, in varying combinations, to prevent such external exchanges: An ingrown culture which simply prevents the option from being considered.

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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! In this post I’ll share 3 misconceptions entrepreneurs and business leaders should be aware when starting a company but also when starting a bigger project. David Burkus from LDRLB presents In Praise of Middle Managers.

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How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market

Harvard Business Review

The team’s mission was to come up with new products for the European market — and then, significantly, to convince senior management in South Korea to invest in those projects — several of which, it turned out, required Samsung to deviate from their current strategy within the product categories in question.

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Why Is Innovation So Often Synonymous With Disappointment?

Harvard Business Review

Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. The best project managers, he writes, have a "magical" impact; companies need to do a better job of supporting and encouraging them. How do you make sure it has an impact on the world?

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Why Is Innovation So Often Synonymous With Disappointment?

Harvard Business Review

Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. The best project managers, he writes, have a “magical” impact; companies need to do a better job of supporting and encouraging them. How do you make sure it has an impact on the world?

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To Succeed in Tech, Women Need More Visibility

Harvard Business Review

A study by Jennifer Glass and coauthors in 2013 found that women leave STEM fields at dramatically higher rates than women in other occupations. How talent management is changing. But pipeline factors are not the only reason for the low numbers of women: Companies are failing to retain the female employees they have. Insight Center.