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19 Key Leadership Competencies & Behaviors from 29 Top Experts

Miles Anthony Smith

To succeed, a leader must learn to balance their relationships, time, strategic efforts and personal development. Not only does it provide tools and resources for those transitioning into a leadership role, it also includes development strategies for management teams who are overseeing the growth of new leaders. Leaders are developed!

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Workers, Take Off Your Headphones

Harvard Business Review

It's a huge and real loss in terms of career development. That may increase a certain kind of productivity, but at what cost? But organizations need to develop protocols that avoid making isolation the universal default office norm, and that encourage face-to-face interaction. Some personal-bubbledom is necessary.

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Morning Advantage: Ben Stiller's Search for Digital Gold

Harvard Business Review

As comedians like Ben Stiller, Sarah Silverman, and Michael Cera start production companies to develop and sell original content to digital distributors like Yahoo!, Will Holllywood figure out how to use the Internet to generate the big bucks? You have to go way, way down this Fast Company article to find much revenue to speak of.

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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

Investors punish companies with a short-term orientation by applying higher discount rates to them, which increases the cost of capital for those companies. In contrast, companies with a long-term orientation are rewarded with a lower cost of capital, which allows them to afford more innovation—a virtuous cycle.

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Morning Advantage: Ben Stiller's Search for Digital Gold

Harvard Business Review

As comedians like Ben Stiller, Sarah Silverman, and Michael Cera start production companies to develop and sell original content to digital distributors like Yahoo!, Will Holllywood figure out how to use the Internet to generate the big bucks? You have to go way, way down this Fast Company article to find much revenue to speak of.