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5 Must-read Leadership Books for Women Leaders

HR Digest

by Ryan Holiday. Women gaining more power to lead, green-light projects, and innovate does not come at the expense of men. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg hit the bestseller list with this book in 2013. Here we bring you a list of 5 must-read books for Women Entrepreneurs and leaders: The Obstacle is the Way. by Sheryl Sandberg.

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The Future of Business Email: Will it Live or Die?

leaderCommunicator

The average number of internal emails per mailbox per week at Atos dropped from 100 in 2011 to under 40 by 2013, according to an Atos report posted on the company’s website. The zero email project evolved after the company realized the average employee was spending 15 to 20 hours a week checking and answering internal emails. “My

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Since achieving first-year sales of $175,000 in 2006, it has increased that number by four orders of magnitude: in 2013, Etsy sold $1.35 cut of sales.

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The Brief and Fascinating History of What You’re Wearing and Where It Gets Made

Harvard Business Review

The inventions, Antonio Regalado writes in Technology Review , range from automated cars to balloon-based data networks to images of keypads that can be projected onto a user''s hand. Hutton’s proposal attracted 40 fans on six continents and soon passed the $25,000 threshold at which the company funds a project.

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How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation

Harvard Business Review

One 2013 study illustrates this well. Academics have studied why people work for nearly a century, but a major breakthrough happened in the 1980s when professors Edward Deci and Richard Ryan from the University of Rochester distinguished the six main reasons why people work. Insight Center. How to Be a Company That Employees Love.

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The Case for Trade, and Why American Leaders Need to Make It

Harvard Business Review

Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. We should run pilots, test performance, and then either build on the experience or end the project. Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, is a free trader who has shown a willingness to urge his colleagues to vote for trade. What about the decline in U.S. manufacturing?