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Rising to the Challenge Before Us – LEADING FORWARD

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Rising to the challenge of 21st Century Leadership starts with recognizing our ability to do GOOD by building GOOD leadership, GOOD business, GOOD communities, GOOD families, GOOD lives. In another century, at a time of great chaos and crisis, Betsy Ross told Thomas Jefferson that times of great challenge demand great leadership.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

The “intellectual capital” brought in by high-knowledge employees will be a major, if not the primary, competitive advantage. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach. Employee Engagement Leadership' The rise in the influence of the knowledge worker. .

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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

Here at Harvard Business School, Dean Nitin Nohria has revamped HBS's MBA curriculum to emphasize practical leadership and global experiences. As a consequence, five of its CEOs have been non-American-born, including today's CEO, Turkish-born Muhtar Kent. In 2011, 71% of HBS's new cases were written about foreign companies.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

” Publicly, CEOs talk about digital transformation, but privately, they wonder if their efforts will be enough. Intellectual capital. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. Everyone on the leadership team has a role to play in making this pivot.

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Why Leaders Are Still So Hesitant to Invest in New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

According to Ocean Tomo, a consulting firm focused on intellectual capital, physical assets (plant, property, and equipment) made up more than 80% of the market value of the S&P 500 in 1975. Outdated beliefs about the world can linger for decades in a leadership team. How much is changing?

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Why IBM Gives Top Employees a Month to Do Service Abroad

Harvard Business Review

According to Litow, the objective was threefold: to support IBMers in their service engagements, to invest the intellectual capital of IBMers in tackling social issues around the world, and to develop the expertise and leadership of IBMers through volunteer opportunities that leverage their skills and abilities.

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Why IBM Gives Top Employees a Month to Do Service Abroad

Harvard Business Review

According to Litow, the objective was threefold: to support IBMers in their service engagements, to invest the intellectual capital of IBMers in tackling social issues around the world, and to develop the expertise and leadership of IBMers through volunteer opportunities that leverage their skills and abilities.