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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

More often it's an implicit contract, a buildup of organizational and cultural norms and the adoption of new technologies that make it easy to tether people to work. We've traveled far and fast from the old world of business ethics, where black-and-white concerns about bribery and fraud could be addressed via rules and processes.

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We Are All Indians

Coaching Tip

He started to understand more fully, as he later wrote, that Indian peoples had "always made alliances, inter-married, and borrowed ideas and technology from other people." "Indian history didn''t end in the 1800s," Trahant added. There were lessons to be learned from the traditional stories and from the tales of new storytellers.

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Theranos and the Dark Side of Storytelling

Harvard Business Review

To explore our enthrallment and explain the science behind it, I wrote a book – The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human. A great storyteller waves her pen over paper like a wand. Consider the medical technology company Theranos, founded by Elizabeth Holmes, which seems to be reaching the end of an epic flameout.

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w Can You Make Your Resolution a Reality? It's all in the Timing

Women on Business

When we don’t, we begin our internal storytelling, ‘He must be thinking this,” “She must be doing that.” For instance, we send someone an email requesting their participation, reaction, decision, and because we know when we sent it, we have a pre-conceived idea about when we might hear back from them.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. ” Instead of just listing facts, compelling storytellers use both soft and hard data. An ethical compass.

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How Marketers Can Start Integrating AI in Their Work

Harvard Business Review

According to Constellation Research , businesses across all sectors will spend more than $100 billion per year on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies by 2025, up from a mere $2 billion in 2015. The science of storytelling and brand performance. Stephen Swintek/Getty Images. The marketing industry will be no exception.

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The Value of Being Original in an Age of Knock-Offs

Harvard Business Review

Today, more than ever, brands need to understand the importance of well-crafted design and storytelling in the modern market. With technology's ability to circulate information at light speed, the traditional six-month cycle that spanned from runway coverage to retail availability has been completely obliterated. How Ethical Are You?