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How Companies Succeed By Engaging Radically With Society

Eric Jacobson

This is the advice from the authors of the new book, Connect: How Companies Succeed By Engaging Radically With Society. Apply world-class management to traditionally "soft" societal topics. The book is all about redefining three discredited works: Corporate Social Responsibility.

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Practicing Patience and Faith

Persuasive Powerhouse

We so need more innovative leaders like you to inspire these top talents! I work for a telecommunications company and occasionally I’m in the field dressing fiber optic cable in cabinet. Stay blessed! Ellen Mary Jo Asmus : October 20, 2010 at 8:32 pm Ellen, thanks for your kind words. It comes from the work my clients do.

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Looking to Join the Lean Start-up Movement?

Harvard Business Review

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. That''s not right. Create mechanisms to enable experiments.

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An Entrepreneur's Three Strategies To Outsmart the Quants

Harvard Business Review

In a downbeat tone the manager of a fast-growing healthcare provider rattled off a list of reasons that her company was turning into a numbers-driven organization: Industry regulations required it, Medicare reimbursement policies required it, and delivering specialized services required yet another form of quantitative analysis.

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So You Want to Join a Board

Harvard Business Review

Many senior managers desire — and are qualified — to join a board. This is understandable but not good: The syndrome can lead to board timidity, herd mentality, and an aversion to innovation, which can hurt or even kill an enterprise. Or perhaps expertise in managing clinical trials you learned in biopharma? Earning trust.

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Pursuing Entrepreneurial Companies: Grad Advice | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

Pursuing Entrepreneurial Companies: Grad Advice. Sixty-five innovative operations - four in the state of California alone. EA says that would stifle innovation. The leaders of these companies aren’t ‘managing the store’; they’re building new stores. Social media, telecommunications, high tech are today’s rising stars.

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