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Do You Have a Balanced Reading (and Learning) Diet?

Kevin Eikenberry

Something you didn’t touch on, was a reverse imbalance…when we are too immersed our our industry/our career and we forget to take time for our hobbies, and a little ‘fun’ It’s just as important to our overall health and success. You can’t talk about this too much.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Make you more innovative. Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. That’s how groups become mired in consensus, and after a while, everyone thinks and acts alike.

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Technological Know-How Is a Job Requirement

Harvard Business Review

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. As Adam Davidson recently argued , "Today, the computer moves the cutting tool and the operator needs to know how to talk to the computer.".

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

A PM with a high EQ has strong relationships within their organization and they have a keen sense of how to navigate both internal and external hurdles to ship a great product. The best PMs know how to push hard on the right priorities, with urgency, but without conveying a sense of panic or stress.

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Business Customers Are Digital. Shouldn't Your Marketing Be?

Harvard Business Review

Business customers do expect to see the same unique and effective tools they use: from how-to videos on YouTube, to personalization tools, to employees as customer service reps, to intuitive design that rewards past activity and predictive data analytics. It can also open up entirely new pathways of innovation.