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How to Help Managers Become More Strategic

Let's Grow Leaders

In a recent HBR article, Robert Kabacoff shares his research of 60,000 managers in 40 countries. Managers can learn to be more strategic through understanding, exposure and challenge. Instead invest in your highly talent managers and teach them the art of strategy. How Help a Manager Become More Strategic.

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Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career

Harvard Business Review

How do those without extensive training in statistics equip themselves with the skills necessary to thrive (or even just survive) in our age of “big data”? What kind of education do I have to go back and make sure that I have? What do I study? How much education do I need? So it’s by experience.

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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

In other words, Tirole does what modern academic economists do, only better than almost anyone else. He then usually brings in the tools of game theory, in which his protagonists have to contend with other rational actors and the moves they might make. What are the aspects that distill the situation down to its very essence?’”.

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What Watching Too Much Star Trek Gets You

Harvard Business Review

The unsolvable problem that has become the "white whale" of my career's own captain story was posed by Nick Donofrio, IBM's senior vice president of technology (and official protector of innovators) a year before I wrote "Breaking Out." How do you know what to share, and what not to share, before you share?" Unsolvable problem.