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The Best Investment You'll Ever Make

Harvard Business Review

With nervous, but mostly eager, anticipation I walked up to the C-suite floor to meet with a senior manager at Merrill Lynch. When I'd initially met him two years earlier, he'd seemed quite supportive of my career as a sell-side analyst. And we needn't necessarily come up with how to bake a bigger pie on our own.

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Design Your Own Profession

Harvard Business Review

A disaggregated laptop that is lighter and more versatile, since I can use the screen by itself as an e-reader and the keyboard with other devices. Boeing refers to its global "value webs," an approach that turns managers into systems integrators. I recently bought an iPad. After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work. Consider how IBM has tackled new ways of work distribution as described in Lead The Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment , a book which one of us, Ravin, co-authored. Insight Center.