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Leading Virtual Teams: 12 Powerful Ways to Lead a Team You Can’t See

RapidStart Leadership

As a friend of mine in the finance industry pointed out, successful teamwork under these conditions is all about finding creative ways to shrink the distance between you and the team. Maybe it’s a Monday morning phone huddle to set weekly goals, or a Friday video conference to share updates. Set a rhythm. Have a place to share.

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The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing

Harvard Business Review

As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap. In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole.

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How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave

Harvard Business Review

The Barron's article mentioned that a 690 million euro convertible bond sale in February had bought Amazon some more time (the list was based on 1999 year-end data) — but that the company would still run out of cash in 21 months. billion in bonds the year before). But it also included a certain Internet bookseller from Seattle.

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Start Networking with People Outside Your Industry

Harvard Business Review

As Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam has written, you need to have a balance of both “bonding capital” and “bridging capital” — i.e., relationships based respectively on your commonalities (bonding) and relationships built across differences (bridging). How to Get the Most Out of a Conference.

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You Can Be a Great Leader and Also Have a Life

Harvard Business Review

“It’s enabled me to have a bond with my daughter now that’s really amazing,” he said. I shouldn’t even be at this conference,” Hickox said. “The culture in the bank’s accounting and finance team has changed totally since I got here,” she said.

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Build Your Team Like an Executive

Harvard Business Review

At meetings of the corporation's finance managers, Tim makes a point to spend time with lower-level staff members to establish a personal bond. He is active in a number of outside finance groups and similarly devotes time at their conferences to seek out and get to know finance talent outside the company.

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Reinhart, Rogoff, and How the Macroeconomic Sausage Is Made

Harvard Business Review

After watching a presentation by Kaggle founder and CEO Anthony Goldbloom at a conference last year , I went up to the front of the room to ask him a question about macroeconomics. Higher than that, and the bond market vigilantes would punish the U.S. Economy Finance Research' with much higher interest rates on government debt.

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