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Challenged Onto the Stage

Lead Change Blog

In addition to forcing me to practice public speaking during that weekend workshop, the instructor taught me three important things that you should do in every presentation: 1. Today, it’s normal as the next generation of breakthrough technologies are often being invented by people much younger than I was then. Tell them.

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Where Do They Go To Get Business Advice?

Strategy Driven

Technology consulting firms. Political action committees. Niche Experts and Consultants. Freelance consultants, per industry niche. Banking, insurance benefits, human resources, etc. Researchers. Educational Programs. Panels at forums. Conferences. Material published or broadcast in the media. Articles excerpted for meetings.

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Guest Blogger Nathan Zeldes: Why and How to Communicate Across Company Lines

leaderCommunicator

Better still, speak in them, volunteer to sit in their program committees, lead sessions or participate in panels. You can start with near-competitors – companies that use similar technologies but make different product lines. Once there, connect to the right people.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Authority on new technology and communication. Facilitates workshops on vision, mission and values integration. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. Divya Silbermann – Human resources leader at technology startups, including Facebook and Eventbrite. Alex Osterwalder – Co-founder Strategyzer.

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

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Transforming Rural India Through Agricultural Innovation

Harvard Business Review

A large part of NAF’s effort with farmers is to help break their initial emotional barriers to new technologies. The success of these measures has had a demonstrative impact on the farmers’ willingness to adopt and internalize new technologies. This has provided the platform to launch into other initiatives.

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Olympic Host Cities Need Transparency, Not Knowledge Transfer

Harvard Business Review

Certainly, knowledge transfer has been a priority of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It runs workshops to give host cities detailed guidance on each work stream, as well as sharing past learnings in the regular Project Reviews and Coordination Commission visits that take place over the seven years of planning.