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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm … on “Good Company”

The Practical Leader

participation in decision making and autonomy, along with supervisory career support (information, advice, and encouragement). “ Structural cohesion is an employee-generated synergy — essentially a close-knit, high-energy culture — that propels the company forward.”

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A Story on Importance of Processes: From Subroto Bagchi

QAspire

This book journals growth of MindTree from idea to IPO. That is a million dollar advice for anyone who is building teams and organizations. This is one book that helped me understand the business of doing business. It offers very interesting insights on some of the most important aspects of building great organizations.

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Become Your Own Best Gatekeeper

Harvard Business Review

And I recall well, at the start of my career, how flattered I felt to be asked for a meeting or some advice — thrilled to be looked at as enough of an expert to be of help. I'm all for taking the time to meet interesting new people (that's why I make a point to go to conferences like Renaissance Weekend.

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Making Setbacks Work For You

Tim Milburn

And do you remember Facebook’s disastrous IPO? The best approach might be to take the advice of the great Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Be open to alternatives, even if they’re not directly related to your current career path. Much of the advice you get during this crisis might seem simplistic. Perhaps so.

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Grieving for a Colleague: Deep, Silent, and Solitary

Harvard Business Review

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. They think.Danny.was.supposed to be.," Listen hard.

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Case Study: How Hard Should You Push Diversity?

Harvard Business Review

I've spent the past month doing pitchbooks for a pulp-and-paper IPO that's never going to happen," Anthony said. He had wooed them with assurances that they would be working on the most important mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs in the world, and that they would quickly rise to the director level. The unsolicited advice irked Charles.

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Business Should Focus on Sociality, Not Social "Media"

Harvard Business Review

Beyond the allure of today's latest fads and fashions, beyond the advice I and others can give you about money, sex, and power and how to get it all, fast, here are four essential, timeless truths. Now, let's talk about meggings , and their even less fortunately named cousin, mantyhose. Life is shorter than any of us truly expect.

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