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“The Formula”: The Unspoken Truth About The Packaging, Peddling, And Commoditization Of Leadership And Knowledge

Lead Change Blog

Peddler markets book, particularly if they become expert at social media. Peddler’s event doesn’t really disclose much and is really just a tee-up for the real pitch. It’s called Amway for leadership development or the selling of knowledge. At its most benign, it’s multi-level marketing; at its worst, it’s a Ponzi scheme.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

It may seem an obscure data management distinction, but this shift toward collecting unstructured data – which is a large part of what Big Data is all about – is sending shock waves across traditional organizations. In short, there is a lot more to doing business in the Big Data world than simply collecting and analyzing more data.

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The Worst Failure of All Is Wasting a Failure

Harvard Business Review

Sebell (mark@creativerealities.com), who are managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc. a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. In interviews with a dozen senior managers from a large company, two particular failures came up over and over again. Create a knowledge management system.

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5 Tips for Managing Successful Overseas Assignments

Harvard Business Review

But expatriate assignments can be extremely expensive: up to three times the cost of a person’s typical annual salary, according to some statistics. This communication should follow a highly structured process. Sending talented employees overseas can be a promising way to leverage the benefits of a global economy.

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A Social Brain Is a Smarter Brain

Harvard Business Review

The design of the study was simple – the researchers took one group of participants, randomly paired people up, and instructed them to get to know each other by asking probing questions. Take one of the teams that recently responded to the GE/NFL Head Health Open Innovation Challenge , which NineSigma managed.

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Bring in Outside Experts to Mentor Your Team

Harvard Business Review

Mentor/coach: Contributes through others as a formal manager, an idea leader, a project owner, or an informal employee developer. They are actively involved in building their business, developing their strategies, growing and maintaining strong customer relationships, and creating a service offering that’s attractive to their market.

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Why Your Employees’ Suggestions Aren’t Going Anywhere

Harvard Business Review

Consider a real example: Not long after a company created an online suggestion box on its new intranet, with all the bells and whistles of the latest social-media technologies, an executive lamented: “All we get are a bunch of complaints and impossibly wild ideas that we couldn’t follow up on in a million years.”

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