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3 Connections That Propel Every Great Leader

Lead Change Blog

Last week I traveled to San Francisco to speak at a conference. Recently, I saw an aspiring leader sit back on a social media forum and post something like, “Hey, I really wish you’d mentor me!” It was a generic comment that felt needy and like the person was a victim. How You Grow Tall.

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Surgeons Are Using Social Media to Share and Learn New Skills

Harvard Business Review

Learning from others’ experiences is an important aspect of professional development in surgery. That’s why academic surgical departments across the globe hold weekly Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) conferences that gather surgeons together to review particular cases and share ideas for improving their practice.

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Five Reasons Social Media Won't Consolidate

Harvard Business Review

Talk to the head of social media at any Fortune 500 company, and you''re likely to hear comments like these. It''s not that social media professionals are lacking software options: on the contrary, "there are a hundred different solutions for aggregating discussion, tweets, et cetera," Miguel Moreno Toscano told me.

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