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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Its market cap is over $2 trillion. Even more alarming, almost every new business it launched failed: e-books, mobile phones, search engines, music; it was one dramatic dud after another. In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. You know this company.

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Stefania Mallett, Founder of ezCater Creates a $1B Unicorn

N2Growth Blog

Along the way, she learned some valuable lessons about leadership and culture. Confident in her idea, she piloted her plan in two markets—her hometown of Boston and Greensboro, North Carolina. Each market did reasonably well. Most of all, she learned to hire great people, give them autonomy and never micromanage them! .

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Leadership Development Carnival: June 2014 Edition

QAspire

Welcome to the June 02nd 2014 Carnival of Leadership Development. I am thankful to carnival leader Dan McCarthy for allowing me to host this event - a wonderful collection of very practical insights on Leadership Development. Dr. Anne Perschel from Germane Insights shares “ The Secret Ingredient of Great Leadership ”.

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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

This focus on short-term challenges neglects the development of essential management and leadership skills. Large online retailer This large online retailer currently has 50 management and leadership apprentices at level 5 and 60 at level 6. Flexibility and open spend: Under this system any levy incurred above 0.5%

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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

This focus on short-term challenges neglects the development of essential management and leadership skills. Large online retailer This large online retailer currently has 50 management and leadership apprentices at level 5 and 60 at level 6. Flexibility and open spend: Under this system any levy incurred above 0.5%

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How to Stop Micromanaging Your Team

Harvard Business Review

Micromanaging is a hard habit to break. If you’re the kind of boss who lasers in on details, prefers to be cc’ed on emails, and is rarely satisfied with your team’s work, then—there’s no kind way to say this— you’re a micromanager. How should you prioritize what matters?

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Research: We Are Way Harder on Female Leaders Who Make Bad Calls

Harvard Business Review

Leadership. Brescoll and her team looked at two other traditionally male jobs with considerable power – the CEO of an engineering firm and the chief judge of a state supreme court. In this leadership role, a role often played by women, men paid a price for showing poor judgment. Further Reading. Magazine Article.

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