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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage. Business best practice never stands still.

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Who Gets a Seat at the Table?

Harvard Business Review

Escaping that rut and rethinking who gets a seat at the table just might be the most urgent leadership imperative of our day. Jim Whitehurst got a short course in doing just that when he arrived as CEO of the rough-and tumble Red Hat from his post as COO of the rather more buttoned-up Delta Airlines four years ago.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

And that same transparency has radically shortened the shelf life of any new competitive advantage. “We’ll To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership. Deborah DiSanzo, the CEO of Philips Healthcare, was once a CMO.

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