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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

In this uncertain environment, including the mounting global economic concerns, a humble mindset will be the only thing that will unlock the most promising business, social and economic innovations. Anyone can innovate if given the opportunity and the support. He provides practical tools to “unleash” the hidden creativity in all of us.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Manager vs. ?

Lead on Purpose

Seth Godin covers this concept nicely in his book Tribes. I won’t go into the details of the jobs by title; there are books and blogs that cover those nicely. I think about the things I manage (personal finances, household, a team of people). The leader focuses on moving towards a higher, more valuable goal.

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Leadership and Product Management

Lead on Purpose

Accounting/Finance: This group is often completely ignored by product management. The sales people who “get it&# will feed critical information back to product management to improve the products, but they will not expect things to change overnight or for their next sale.

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Guest Post: Watch Out for Flying Monkeys!

Lead on Purpose

Maintaining a relationship with executive administrators, travel, finance, sales and development can provide valuable information on travel schedules, agendas and the details that will reinforce the emergence of Flying Monkeys. Another avenue that many product management leaders fail to utilize is internal relationships.

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma. How Jobs figured out the puzzle at the core of his favorite business book. by Bill Taylor. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. How the science of attention blindness can help you improve your innovative thinking. by James Allworth.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose. If youre here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick. So throw Frederick W.