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The Shape of the Meaning Organization

Harvard Business Review

It's well past time to begin imagining an organization of a radically different kind — one that takes a quantum leap beyond strategy, marketing, and finance into a novel galaxy of unexplored, untapped economic possibilities. Here's what I think that organization — call it the Meaning Organization — might look it.

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How Leaders Can Help Others Influence Them

Harvard Business Review

Recently, I was talking with a senior leader from a world-class global learning and development company. In the 1960s and 1970s, we embraced participative leadership ; in the 1990s, we were lured by the learning organization. We were discussing his firm’s approach to teaching leadership.