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$17.14 Can Change Your Thinking. Guaranteed.

Rich Gee Group

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson makes that cut. I’d recommend it to anyone who’s ever had bursts of inspiration and wondered why they haven’t been able to replicate those circumstances, or anyone who wants to innovate at all. Unported License.

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SkillSoft to Film Videos on Employee Engagement, Strategic Alignment

Michael Lee Stallard

Skillsoft has 10 million licensed users that represent 55 percent of the Fortune 500 and 24 percent of the Global 2000 organizations in business, government, and education. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business Review

Some people attribute the company’s missteps to the personal failings of founder-CEO Travis Kalanick. Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices.

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Attitude Reflects Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? Leaders are not perfect, and as CEO, trust me when I tell you that you’re going to have your fair share of bad days.

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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

CEOs talk focus all the time and nod to its importance, but few take the necessary measures to cut through complexity and clear a path to clarity and coherence. They launched new product kits, created the blockbuster LEGO Digital Designer, and negotiated some very lucrative licensing arrangements such as Harry Potter and Star Wars.

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What Inexperienced Leaders Get Wrong (Hint: Management)

Harvard Business Review

Not just those under attack for ethical lapses, accounting problems, or excessive compensation – retired college presidents are the latest to join corporate executives in the latter category. to new CEOs with a vision their stakeholders won’t rally behind that won’t guarantee results anyway.

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Don’t Try to Be a Publisher and a Platform at the Same Time

Harvard Business Review

Sometimes, they also hope to develop a content management system that other publishers can license and use to distribute their content. As they lower their safeguards to attract more users, platishers enter a legal and ethical gray area. So perhaps it was inevitable that, in 2014, Kickstarter quietly softened its guidelines.