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Beware the Leader’s Curse

Lead Change Blog

Identify a role within your company that you might assume at the right time in the future, that plays to your strengths, like chief evangelist or chief technology officer. Can I still help my company achieve its goals? It’s really important to be proactive about this.

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How to Evaluate Whether You Made an Effective Career Decision

Lead Change Blog

Tom made a major career decision 3 months ago: he decided to leave his position as chief information officer at a large manufacturing firm to become an entrepreneur and start a company to provide software that helps manufacturers improve the quality of their manufacturing process.

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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

We were able to focus and work collaboratively toward our goals. He was formerly Director of Research and Director of System Architecture for Akamai Technologies and was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Cilk Arts, Inc., Remarkably, after only two off-site workshops, our teams started to function better.

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A Hands-Off Approach to Open Innovation Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

That doesn’t sound all that unreasonable, perhaps, but consider this: Only 38% of those who took this approach said they believed the innovation partnership had achieved its strategic goals. Don’t assume that each side’s goals are obvious. The right operating approach helps keep the focus on strategic goals.

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Reversing the Curse of Dominant Logic

Harvard Business Review

From the bottom up, Local Growth Teams (LGTs) should: Establish radical goals: Harman built an LGT in India to design a new auto infotainment system to provide all the functionality at half the price and one-third the cost. It's a dramatic action based on the simple idea that changes in scenary help bring about changes in thinking.

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The One Unbreakable Rule in Business Writing

Harvard Business Review

A good way to keep yourself honest is to create a scenario that meets your stated goals but fails in other ways. If you hem and haw and equivocate, then you need to drill deeper and make sure you figure out what other goals must be included in this scenario for you to be satisfied with the result. Question 2: Who am I writing this for?

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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

We suggest a number of possible approaches for organization leaders to consider: Assign a roving chief technology officer or project manager. Their goal is to arrange the conditions for an effective collaboration, and provide ongoing coaching support as needed.

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