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Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied

Leading Blog

Howard Yu explains in Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied , how a business can shield itself from copycats. What is the core knowledge discipline that is most fundamental to your company and how widely available is it? Corporate leaders need to absorb career risks….

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Author: How to Be Happy at Work. .

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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. About the Author.

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Everyone Suffers from Imposter Syndrome — Here’s How to Handle It

Harvard Business Review

The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has created a crowdsourcing platform called InnoCentive , through which outside innovators are paid to solve vexing problems the company faces. Early in my career, when I walked into a networking event I was convinced that I was the only one worried about making small talk with strangers.

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How to Educate More Creative Problem-Solvers

Harvard Business Review

Technological innovation accounted for almost half of U.S. economic growth over the past 50 years, but the country's standing as the world's indisputable innovation leader is now at risk. These young employees have never learned how to focus on the important problems — we haven't adequately taught them how to think.

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Just How Important Is Manufacturing?

Harvard Business Review

Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. Since joining the Harvard Business School in 2007 (after a long career at IBM, Kodak, Silicon Graphics, and other companies), I have visited hundreds of factories. When R&D and Manufacturing Must Be Near.

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Too Many People of Color Feel Uncomfortable at Work

Harvard Business Review

People of color too often feel that they have to hide their true selves at work, according to "Vaulting the Color Bar: How Sponsorship Levers Multicultural Professionals into Leadership," a new research report from the Center for Talent Innovation. You just don't want to talk about it. And I'd never dream of wearing a sari to work.".