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Six Ways to Grow Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Some companies have allowed employees up to 20% of their time to work on their own projects, but I know of no company that helps leaders free up their time to work on the frontier of their jobs. Sign up for a project outside your main area. When the program ends, don’t let the day job reabsorb the learning time.

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The Economically Out-of-Date Nation-State

Harvard Business Review

Michael Porter, the godfather of business strategy, has gotten a lot of attention lately for trying to apply his model of competitive dynamics to the current plight of the United States — high unemployment, crushing healthcare costs, crumbling infrastructure, and widespread indebtedness.

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