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July 2016 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Learn from leaders in marketing, HR technology, structural engineering, corporate catering, innovation consulting, entrepreneurial education, benefits administration, and construction.” His scorecard checks whether products are meaningful, sold ethically, produced in a sustainable way, and so on.

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4 Hard Questions to Ask About Your Company’s Purpose

Harvard Business Review

Its purpose was to enhance people’s lives through great engineering that offered everyone an accessible, high-quality car. Statements of purpose often float upward into fluffy, generic moral injunctions, or land heavily as marketing slogans and value propositions. Nestlé was founded to save the life of a baby.

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For a New Way to Manage Risk, Look to the Past

Harvard Business Review

For example, one of eHarmony’s competitive advantages in the matchmaking market is that it limits competition on both sides of the match. It''s a nice primer on a range of views about what search engines should and shouldn''t reveal, and how the extraordinarily powerful company in the middle of the battle is responding.

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Why I Appreciate Starbucks

Harvard Business Review

At Starbucks, that has meant contributing both money and time to meet local needs in the communities it serves, promoting sustainable farming communities and ethically sourcing coffee, and packaging and transporting its products with sensitivity to their environmental impact. In 2000, he stepped down as CEO of Starbucks.

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45 Career Advice Experts Offer Career Success Secrets

Miles Anthony Smith

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. Be able to receive and give constructive feedback.

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