Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2019

These organizations tend to lag behind in innovation, discretionary effort, morale and ultimately performance. But few realize that being a sponsor is just as important to career growth as finding one. Similarly, middle-level managers who have proteges are 167 percent more likely to be given stretch assignments.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Innovation + Collaboration Finding a pathway to improvement starts with an in-depth understanding of your challenges. Provide employees with unique opportunities to advance their careers through education, training and certification. Circulate surveys and collect honest feedback, use your deficiencies as a tool to find new solutions.

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The number of books in my library is huge. The first time I read Paradigms almost 25 years ago, it led me to disrupt and then change my career. Barker believed that excellence, innovation and anticipation are the triad of the future. That's how I felt while reading One-Minute Manager Meets the Monkey over 20 years ago.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The New York Public Library is one of the largest public libraries in the world, with 18 million visitors yearly, a budget of nearly $300m, and 93 branches. Library leaders knew that given the immense changes brought on by digital innovations, as well as shifts in the communities that the Library served, it would need to evolve.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2019

Roberto Leaders do not have to conceive innovative ideas, but rather open the path for curious and creative employees within their organization. Unlocking Creativity aids organizations in removing obstacles to the creative process and helps to form an atmosphere of imagination and innovation. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. Mine your backyard.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Thomas Jefferson had one of the most exhaustive personal libraries of his time prior to donating it to the Library of Congress (which many joked Roosevelt had read). For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

Reflecting on the fact that Holly routinely plays with both our iPad and Kinect , I said to my wife, "I think the odds that Holly actually uses a laptop during her working career are pretty close to zero.". Innovation is the imperative of today's times.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For the first time in my young career, I was going to lots of meetings, and my job had become as much about convincing, cajoling, and coordinating as it was about designing. My manager told me about a team that was working on the Google Help Forum. We were product managers, designers, and leaders. JUSTIN TALLIS/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Volunteering offers participants the opportunity to strengthen their skills, broaden their networks, break out of a career rut, and find new meaning in their job. Data from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) shows that the vast majority of college graduates want to amplify their commitment to good causes through their employer.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

The personae include Wharton management professor Daniel Raff, who points out the dangers of Amazon’s growing control over cultural products, and venture capitalist David Pakman, who takes the kind of position a venture capitalist would, namely that publishers need to wake up to the realities of the digital world.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 15, 2020

Gender biases often appear in the most unusual places, and new research from Rutgers University shows that the stock image libraries are no different. After analyzing the images in various stock libraries portraying computer programmers, nurses, civil engineers and librarians, they found significant stereotyping and gender bias at work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

With sophisticated document management systems, global connectivity, and on-line networks professionals can find research reports, best practices, articles and experts from anywhere in the world. Self-service information management makes sense — to a point. No one knows better than the users themselves what they need.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

Tributes flowed in far and wide , and fittingly so — Swartz had accomplished more in his short 26 years than many of us will manage in a lifetime. In fact, the judge, for "the first time in his 25-year career. sentenced someone above the federal guidelines.". For doing that, Aaron Swartz was initially charged with four felonies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

But over the next century, weavers improved their skills and mechanics and managers made adaptations and improvements, generating a twenty-fold increase in output per hour. But without a robust labor market, textile workers could not look forward to a long career at different workplaces and so they had little reason to invest in learning.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Similarly, they believe areas such as management and finance are equally uncertain and unpredictable. The researchers cite the academic world as an area where looser networks might work well, as projects typically have very uncertain outcomes.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Managers are expected to be effective team leaders and employees are expected to be valued teammates. Being part of a struggling team can be unpleasant, but it can also hurt your career and waste company resources. And how do we tap into that drive to get superior results with our managers, coworkers, and direct reports?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

This popular triumph of the “ heuristics and biases ” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws that economics long glossed over, and led to interesting innovations in retirement planning and government policy. What’s the problem with the way that turkey approached risk management?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

From The New York Public Library. Boundary-less work partnerships and networks augment capabilities and redefine careers, learning and workplace fairness and attractiveness. Technology evolves, but management and workplace arrangements evolve more slowly. Exponential technology change. Today, turbo-charged.

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