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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

Finally, leaders must develop a culture that communicates the organization’s vision and strategy. The mob bosses constructed enduring crime rings using core economic concepts of corporate governance that lawful managers also must follow. Then these individuals’ performance must be measured and rewarded. Zimmerman , Ph.D.,

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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

The potential for social mobility was far from even across different industries, however, with sectors like finance, real estate, and insurance scoring particularly poorly. “We argue that CEOs’ social class can only be understood when considering both family background and the current resources (income and education) at their disposal.”

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Health of the Business Landscape in the U.S.

Coaching Tip

Biggest gains: accommodation and food services (10% growth since 2009, an increase of 3,932 establishments); health care and social assistance (7%, 3,799); retail trade (6%, 4,336); professional, scientific, and technical services (5%, 4,655). Florida – From 2009 to 2012, Florida accounted for 10% of all net new establishments in the U.S.

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. How is this state of affairs possible?

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Leading Digital Transformation Is Like Urban Planning

Harvard Business Review

They include building glistening landmarks that anchor their digital strategy (as Dubai has done), removing roadblocks and bottlenecks to improve their underlying speed and agility (Boston), or changing course altogether to construct an entirely new city (Shanghai). Dubai: Erecting Modern Landmarks. How the best companies get up to speed.

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Can the "College Premium" Withstand Hyperspecialization?

Harvard Business Review

In The Age of Hyperspecialization (July-August 2011, co-authored by Tom Malone of MIT and Tammy Johns of Manpower), we note that the division of labor, a development that transformed the way physical work was accomplished during the industrial revolution, may now be poised to redefine how knowledge work gets done in the 21st century.

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How Industrial Firms Invest in Renewable Energy, Affordably

Harvard Business Review

Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. So the PPA terms that retailers and tech companies sign have not worked for the heavy guys. They held about 40 meetings with companies that had bought renewable energy and with big project developers. Get early buy-in.

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