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August 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the August 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Julie Winkle-Giulioni of Julie Winkle-Giulioni provided Creativity: It’s What’s Missing from Career Development. Julie recaps, “Career development is as unique as each individual being developed.

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Five Foundational Truths of Youth Marketing (and Leadership)

Leading Blog

It is an important and comprehensive book for marketers, but there are some principles they share that have a much wider application, that I wanted to share. In the book, they list the five foundational truths of youth marketing (and leadership). Adam Wilson, 2018, Former director of brand marketing for Carhartt, North America.

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The Vital Secondary Market For Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, it’s believed that around 30% of all patents granted between 1994 and 2017 were sold at least once by 2020. This highlights a robust secondary market for innovation, yet research from the Stanford Graduate School of Business suggests that this market is often overlooked when we think of innovation.

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How to Sharpen Your Digital Marketing in 2017

Strategy Driven

Everyone is doing digital marketing as a way to promote their products, services, and brands these days. The measurable nature of digital marketing and the fact that even small businesses can achieve great results with a good campaign make digital marketing very appealing to more and more businesses. Leave It to Experts.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2017

Leading Blog

Those skills, while uniquely human, are not what we are typically trained to do and require a deal of messy personal development. It’s typically not the player with the highest market value. New skills will be needed. Uniquely human skills. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). So that’s what we continue to get. Blog Post ).

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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Although digitization has a significant catalytic effect on these processes, a successful diversification strategy would still need a solid basis and a set of scalable growth patterns that could apply to target markets. It will most likely overcome cross-cultural barriers as it expands into new markets.

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Investing In Robots Can Cause Profits To Fall

The Horizons Tracker

The study analyzed industry data spanning from 1995 to 2017 in the UK and 24 other European countries. Mixed results The U-shaped phenomenon is attributed to the interplay between cost reduction, process development, and product innovation. Companies often embrace robotic technologies initially to cut costs through process innovation.