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How to Become a Master Persuasive Storyteller

Skip Prichard

Using simple pictures drawn on the back of a napkin, Dan Roam explained American health care, helped Peet’s Coffee earn a billion dollars, and is working with Google to redefine how the world thinks about the internet. Leadership Tip: Great communicators start by asking “What story does my presentation want to tell?”

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A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The challenge that we face — making health care affordable and conveniently accessible to most people — is not unique to health care.

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To Fix Health Care, Leaders Need to Let Go of the Status Quo

Harvard Business Review

In health care, the Hippocratic Oath — “first, do no harm” — can hold as much sway in the board room as it does in the exam room. Among health care leadership, it can have the unintended effect of promoting inaction over change and innovation. health care has become akin to a smothered child—stifled and arrested.

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All Boards Need a Technology Expert

Harvard Business Review

A few months ago I decided to look into the professional experience of non-executive directors at the major banks listed in Britain. Like almost every other major industry today, banking relies on hugely complex, enormously expensive technology. The truth is that many industries today employ outdated technology.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. McKinsey may have been hired in 2013 by the Vatican, the Bank of England, and the owners of the Rangers and Knicks, but they’re also acting to stave off threats to their business model.

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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. Most African artisans do not bank because of the fees associated with operating current accounts.

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Identifying Root Causes Beats Quick Fixes Every Time

Frank Sonnenberg Online

How about sponsoring technology for a school so the students have better tools for learning…or sponsoring internships for female students or students from underprivileged areas so they are exposed to a business setting at a young age and inspired by working in that environment?

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