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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2023

Leading Blog

Generation Why : How Boomers Can Lead and Learn from Millennials and Gen Z by Karl Moore Perhaps more than ever before, young people entering the workforce are searching for meaning and authenticity in their careers. Beyond Disruption : Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs by W.

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Five Ways to Ruin Your Innovation Process

Harvard Business Review

Second, recognize that on-again, off-again innovation is worse than nothing. It sends the signal that these are not the projects that people should bet their careers on. Build it into good people's career paths. then reorganized because this left them vulnerable to disruptive innovation. Set aside a regular budget.

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An Agenda for the Future of Global Business

Harvard Business Review

The agenda goes far beyond political activism; it attacks root causes by committing to sustaining an inclusive model of economic growth. Finding effective and affordable ways to help people acquire transferable skills during their careers, not just before they start out, is a large social challenge. The New Science of Human Capital.

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The Inevitable Disruption of Television

Harvard Business Review

This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." Though it didn't deal explicitly with the concept of disruption, it did bring up a concept very important to the disruption of the television industry: ecosystem development. But after this last trip, the standard response wasn't enough.

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Business Wisdom from the Commencement Speakers of 2014

Harvard Business Review

What follows is a short recap of some of the best bits from this year’s commencements, as related to business and career success. You’re witnessing creative destruction and disruptive innovation at work. The hardest thing I had to learn in my career is that I am not always right. I want you to be you.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

3) Lack of commitment. Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. The five dysfunctions are: 1) Absence of trust. 2) Fear of conflict.

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The Graduation Advice We Wish We'd Been Given

Harvard Business Review

In a world of layoffs, outsourcing, and industry disruption, the only "career insurance" you can get is through figuring out the answer to one particular question: how can you make yourself truly valuable professionally? But those paths, the ones you learned about in your career offices aren''t the only ones afforded to you.

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