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Leadership Comes in Many Forms. Helping Business Save the Earth.

Great Leadership By Dan

Markets are where the value of innovations are articulated. Business, and markets more broadly, are often the catalyst for innovation and are thus a critical players in our innovation challenge. Business leaders clearly have a role to play in driving innovative new sustainable technologies that disrupt current markets.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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How Managers Can Avoid Playing Favorites

Harvard Business Review

If you know you have a tendency to play favorites, or at least avoid a certain team member because they aren’t your favorite, you must work on creating bonds. Mario Chamorro, a growth marketer in San Francisco, knows how important it is to treat employees fairly. Find something you have in common.

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Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less

Harvard Business Review

When an organization is small enough that each member can have a personal relationship with every other, or at least recognize their faces and names, gathering everyone for regular meetings strengthens social bonds and bolsters the feeling that “we are one company.” But an intimate gathering with, say, 500 of your best friends isn’t feasible.

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IDEO’s Employee Engagement Formula

Harvard Business Review

When people play together, they form stronger bonds and are more willing to take risks and imagine new possibilities with one another. That’s why we also ask our locations to tailor IDEO’s purpose to their particular markets or studios. Permission to play. How do I have positive and disproportionate impact?

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Bringing an Entrepreneurial Mindset to the World’s Failing Systems

Harvard Business Review

They are notorious for their hours spent thoughtfully connecting people by email and know that the secret is to nudge business partners to become friends, encouraging bonds to form in a deeply human way. They create groundswells around new solutions. As Buckminster Fuller said : “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

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