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Executive Presence Training

Career Advancement

For example, a multi-billion-dollar biotechnology company recently contacted me for a training on executive presence to help newly minted high-potential mid-level managers reach the next level of leadership. The audience learned how to: Radiate Gravitas: Be poised, confident, in command, and charismatic.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. What are the components of innovation capital?

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Companies Can Address Talent Shortages by Partnering with Educators

Harvard Business Review

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. To facilitate these, companies typically begin by assessing their human capital needs and job requirements, and then collaborate with schools to produce workers with the needed skills. Department of Labor, there are currently 6.3 Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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What You Might Not Know About the Cuban Economy

Harvard Business Review

When you put all these pieces together around education and health care, it’s clear that Cuba is likely a champion of investment in the development of human capital—but for the last 50 years it has an extremely low economic return on this investment. They know how to make new products.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

No one can say for sure how to get on a corporate board, but many people point to two routes: the first is to break into the "right" network and the second is to seek a progression of board seats that begins with, for example, a seat on a not-for-profit or community board and eventually results in appointment to a corporate board.