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Corporate Entrepreneurship: Turn Irony into Opportunity

In the CEO Afterlife

Corporate giants dominated markets and gobbled up competitors; along the way they failed to cope with rapid change. The change-makers are small- to medium-size enterprises that either lead niche categories or are hell-bent on knocking the big guy from the top rung of a mass market. Explore corporations that value diversity.

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April 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Anne Perschel of Germane Coaching and Consulting provided How Leaders Overcome Resistance – The Most Important Step. Anne writes, “While natural inclination is to choke the breath out of resistance, the real solution is counterintuitive and it’s the single most important thing you can do.” Let’s Get Started.

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7 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Choosing Your Protégé

Steve Farber

Resist the inclination to put strict parameters around picking a protégé — or what I call a GTY relationship, short for Greater Than Yourself. You want a protégé with the energy, drive, and work ethic to follow through on things and take full advantage of what you have to give them. Who will use what you’re giving?

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What It’s Like to Be Owned by Berkshire Hathaway

Harvard Business Review

It has no central marketing, procurement, sales, HR, IT, or legal department. They represent a diverse mix of insurance and noninsurance subsidiaries of various sizes. The ethical conduct of business is central to the company and its culture. Is ethical behavior being influenced by the tone at the top?

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business Review

Fourth, evaluating “scholarship” primarily by counting professors’ “A” journal publications also could encourage academics to engage in questionably ethical research practices in order to produce results that will be accepted by these journals. Where has this stuff been hiding?” But we should be.

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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.

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