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Be an Advocate for Yourself :: Women on Business

Women on Business

o Make sure your position has P&L responsibility. Your mentor might be able to help identify and facilitate this. Create visibility and credibility for yourself in the organization. o Take on high profile projects. Identify your value proposition. What do you bring to the table? o Build and leverage these relationships.

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How to Fix the Most Soul-Crushing Meetings

Harvard Business Review

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan.

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Bring Back the General Manager

Harvard Business Review

As a result, a limited number of people have full, end-to-end accountability for business success — and there are few opportunities for managers to learn all aspects of a business. If successful, they then were given responsibility for increasingly larger businesses. At one time general managers were at the center of the action.

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Why Your Company Should Use the Kickstarter Model to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

If you''ve got a genuinely creative idea — or even a " me, too with a twist " — Kickstarter''s "crowd funding" platform offers a genuinely innovative way to finance creativity and innovation. Many of these initiatives enjoy some success; most do not. Since its 2009 launch, Kickstarter claims that more than 4.1 I''d say not.

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4 Ways Leaders Can Get More from Their Company’s Innovation Efforts

Harvard Business Review

It’s hard to imagine that a success rate that low would be tolerated in any other business function. Don’t Get Trapped in Your P&L. Unexpected changes in technology, customer preferences, and regulation can disrupt even the best-run operation. That’s quite a mismatch.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Book of Acronyms

Strategy Driven

As a Big Picture business strategist, I encourage clients toward adopting new ways of thinking about old processes, including those which brought past and enduring successes. Successful enough to grow, pay its dues and continue growing. The best successes are earned and learned. It is to be just: Committed to customers.

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