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With Change Agents, One Size Does Not Fit All

Harvard Business Review

Earlier in his career he worked at EDS (an IT services provider), where he learned how to run IT as a business. He looks at his leadership team as a kind of sales force, each member of which should be developing a pipeline of opportunities to add more value all the time. How do we develop these different kinds of change agents?

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Work-Family Guilt Is Wasted Energy

Harvard Business Review

Much of the Anglo-Saxon debate about "women in leadership" is framed as an issue of women's "choices." The implication is that women "choose" to gear down their careers in favor of work-life balance. The real issue is to develop the corporate leadership skills to manage a feminizing talent pool and a feminizing customer base.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans.

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The Big Picture of Business – Becoming a Legend

Strategy Driven

The art with which we build our careers and our legacy is a journey that benefits many others along the way. Business development. Courage and leadership. I was then challenged to come up with such a program, the result being the Leadership in Action Awards. Understands that careers evolve. by Hank Moore.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Drawing on her work with business leaders, she has developed the following categorization of how people prefer to think: Conceptual : Reads signs of coming change; sees the "big picture"; recognizes new possibilities; tolerates ambiguity; integrates ideas and concepts; communicates through analogy and metaphor; inspires with visions of the future.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole. Well need to enable cross-boundary judgment.