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February 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the February 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For those of you who watched the Super Bowl this weekend, did you gain any leadership takeaways? It seems that sports frequently provides an opportunity for leadership analogies! Let’s Get Started. Anne Perschel, Ph.D. , Jennifer V.

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America’s Transportation Infrastructure Needs Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Sensors, smartphones, tablets, wireless networks, and Big Data are starting to transform transportation and infrastructure. The appropriately-named Bridj is a Boston-based transportation start-up that provides “pop-up” express bus service based on demand. Photo by Andrew Nguyen. But not fast enough. infrastructure problems.

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Be More Productive Now: Mindful Strategies for Increasing Performance

Strategy Driven

Rasmus is author of the book “One Second Ahead – Enhancing Performance at work with Mindfulness”, published by Palgrave MacMillan, October 2015. She has worked across a range of industries including retail, government, transport, oil and gas, and human services. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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America’s Leaders Need to Tell a New Story About Infrastructure

Harvard Business Review

Narratives are powerful leadership tools. This kind of leadership communication is sorely needed now to get moving on America’s infrastructure problems. Transportation infrastructure must be renewed and reinvented. The state of transportation infrastructure has implications for every major issue.

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What It Will Take to Fix America’s Crumbling Infrastructure

Harvard Business Review

How could an advanced country, once the model for the world’s most modern transportation innovations, slip so badly? The average family of four spends as much as 19% of its household budget on transportation. I put aside work on a book about leadership to tackle the infrastructure issue. The glory years were decades ago.

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Too Many Infrastructure Projects Go It Alone

Harvard Business Review

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. Classic leadership lessons apply. Editor’s note: This is the four in a series of pieces marking Infrastructure Week 2015 that will explore the role of leadership in fixing U.S. Enter a coalition.

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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business Review

But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. It was Lyft that first invited drivers to provide transportation through their personal vehicles. ” (After I first flagged his posting, in 2015, Uber removed the document from its site. But Archive.org kept a copy. Fixing the Problem.