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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

While some companies talk a good game with regard to competitive strategy, in my experience very few businesses actually address the issue in adequate fashion. If we didn’t study films and scouting reports, develop plays that would exploit match-ups, and execute our game plan we would lose…it was as simple as that.

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Featured Rascal: Tank Man

Chris Brady

  In thetypical fashion of tyrannical regimes, the outside world has no complete set ofconfirmed facts regarding the total killed, their names, or the charges againstthem.   Throughout the course ofdispelling the demonstrators, many people were killed and arrested.   As thetanks reached him they stopped.

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Jerks, narcissists and psychopaths… oh my. When working for a.

Roundtable Talk

The September Issue chronicles the development and release of the September issue of Vogue (the biggest and most important issue of the fashion year). This is yet another fascinating view at leadership in action and starkly contrasts the styles of the two icons, Wintour and Coddington. Happy leading!

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Aging Societies Should Make More of Mentorship

Harvard Business Review

The past year brought a rich array of films depicting connections between a wise, older mentor and a younger person in need of sage guidance, in ways that often defied gauzy stereotypes, from art-house movies like Lily Tomlin’s Grandma to blockbusters like Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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How Winning Organizations Last 100 Years

Harvard Business Review

Currently, our alumni include the Head of Design at every car manufacturer in the world, apart from BMW, 8 of Apple’s 18 product designers and at least one designer in every Paris fashion house.” And they carefully manage leadership transitions, so nothing is lost along the way. Stable stewardship.

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Sex, Power, and the Systems That Enable Men Like Harvey Weinstein

Harvard Business Review

In experiments in which one group of people is randomly assigned to a condition of power, people in the ”powerful” group are prone to two shortcomings: They develop empathy deficits and are less able to read others’ emotions and take others’ perspectives. Stockbyte/Getty Images.

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