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Leaders need to Lead

Great Leadership By Dan

My father is a retired engineer with his Master’s degree in thermodynamics. He worked on the Mercury and Gemini space programs before moving to Cummins Engines where he helped develop the small diesel engines now used in pickup trucks. Martin’s Press; August 30, 2016).

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. Where are we? We certainly don’t prepare leaders to do this. So they don’t.

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4 Ways Women Can Break Barriers by Breaking the Rules

Harvard Business Review

One evening in February 2016, writer and filmmaker Ava DuVernay met with two top Disney executives about the possibility of directing an adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel A Wrinkle in Time. After becoming the CEO of WebMD, Patricia Fili-Krushel met with an all-male group of engineers in Silicon Valley.

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business Review

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business Review

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things

Harvard Business Review

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the lowest number since 2007.