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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

Self-assessment exercises, interactive activities, and other tools can help you gain these insights and leverage your strengths. Make it a point to keep the lines of communication open, so that team members feel free to speak to you about day-to-day operations. Mental diversity strengthens teams. To keep leading, keep learning.

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Invest in Digital Marketing to Control Your Destiny

Harvard Business Review

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. The Obama campaign's techniques, tools and technologies deserve detailed and dedicated attention from every organization that takes data-driven decisions seriously. They're right.

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The Professional: Seven New Rules

Strategy Driven

But as Subroto Bagchi says: Go Kiss the World did not provide a tool kit. Consider the chief technology officer of a company who is able to influence standards by being on an industry body – the revenue impact of such a thing can be immense. Traditionally, a rainmaker has been understood to be a great a salesperson.

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When Personal Tragedy Strikes, Downshifting at Work Doesn’t Always Help

Harvard Business Review

Ten days after her husband died unexpectedly while on vacation in Mexico, Sheryl Sandberg returned to work as chief operating officer at Facebook. What are the most important tools or techniques you used to integrate an intense, demanding career with sudden single parenthood?

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How I Hired an Entirely Remote Workforce

Harvard Business Review

Many people are stunned to learn that I didn’t meet my chief technology officer in person until 2014 — three years after he started working for me. It serves not only to clarify internal practices so employees know what to expect and how to achieve success at the company, but also as a recruiting tool.

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Business Processes Are Learning to Hack Themselves

Harvard Business Review

To maintain the quality of its products, Shannon uses Sight Machine’s tools to analyze the grain flow of the metal in the parts it produces. (In Tim Guertiens, chief technology officer of MX3D, explains that his company’s bridge began on both sides of the canal and is being printed toward the middle (to be completed in 2017).