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E-Coaching Roles

Marshall Goldsmith

Many e-learning organizations try to transfer traditional learning methods (classroom training or video) directly into e-learning. Many e-learning tools for leaders are poorly designed. They are often long, slow, awkward, and boring. Leaders will not use them for long. This seldom works.

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The Shape of the Meaning Organization

Harvard Business Review

Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.

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An Entrepreneurial Society Needs an Entrepreneurial State

Harvard Business Review

Breakthrough technologies, such as the internet and biotech, did not emerge from governments worried about “commercialization”; they emerged from the spillovers of investments that were focused on long-run public missions. And in the energy sector, solar, nuclear, wind, and even shale gas, were primed by public finance.