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Sage Advice For The First-Time Leader

Terry Starbucker

There are so many things that you can’t find in any school textbooks, case studies, business simulations, best-selling leadership books, podcasts, and any other outside source in your pre-leadership world that will make the difference on whether you achieve your professional dreams. And then, do a LOT of what I call “people learning“.

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Leadership Irony: To Accomplish More, Do Less

Great Leadership By Dan

On the agenda, was a business simulation that was akin to an outdoor scavenger hunt. As hard as it is for us doers to believe, all the evidence says that maximum effectiveness and innovation start with…STOPPING. She is a sought-after leadership speaker and educator, serving diverse organizations around the world.

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

We think that the next generation strategy apps will finally be able to prove a real business case. Just consider some the advantages games have over more traditional approaches in strategy education. How would a pharmaceutical company react, for example, when a new innovation disrupts the industry’s cost structure?

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GC33: Playing a Better Game of Business | with Simcha Gluck of FreshBiz

Engaging Leader

For one growing company, they not only have created a game that tens of thousands of people have played, they are changing the overall “game” of business itself — to transform corporate culture, education, and entrepreneurship. Simcha Gluck is the chief trainer and co-founder of FreshBiz Global. Twitter: @FreshBizGame.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.