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Time For Women to Compete

Women on Business

Seventy years have passed since women left the confines of being homemakers and joined the work force en mass. Today, in 2012, there are only 12 Fortune 500 companies are led by women CEO’s. They tested leadership skills from development to problem solving to innovation etc. ” That is the first step.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

Recent research has shown that “high purpose” companies — those who have a point of view on social issues, innovate with purpose, and have a commitment to society — outperform “low purpose companies.” For example, high purpose companies experience: 14.1% greater revenue growth 34.7% greater annualized total shareholder return (TSR) 7.7%

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

Recent research has shown that “high purpose” companies — those who have a point of view on social issues, innovate with purpose, and have a commitment to society — outperform “low purpose companies.” For example, high purpose companies experience: 14.1% greater revenue growth. greater annualized total shareholder return (TSR).

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. Quinn write “It is no longer news that over the past five years. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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Morning Advantage: Female Leaders Have Tempers, Too

Harvard Business Review

It seems as though Christine Quinn, a Democratic mayoral candidate in New York City, likes to yell. And Quinn readily admits to it: “I don’t think being pushy or bitchy or tough, or however you want to characterize it, is a bad thing. Sorry, CFOs: CEOs Don't Think You'd Make Good COOs (CFO). WHAT INNOVATION FORGOT.

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Asian Leaders Value Creativity and Intuition More than Europeans Do

Harvard Business Review

As one example, Harvard Business School’s Quinn Mills has made this prediction : “As Asian companies rely more on professional employees of all sorts, and as professional services become more important in Asian economies … Asian leadership will come to more resemble that of the West.”. Many believe so. Creativity Global business Leadership'