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Posts from Top Leadership Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

Lessons from Gilbert and Sullivan. Benjamin McCall’s thoughts bear fruit at ReThinkHR on Employees Only Have So Much Power. Tanveer Naseer helps leaders’ to protect their blind side with tips on how to ease someone back into the team after an absence in Helping Employees Regain Their Productivity After A Prolonged Absence.

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The Best Leaders “Talk the Walk”

Harvard Business Review

But the more time I spend with game-changing innovators and high-performing companies, the more I appreciate the need for leaders to “talk the walk” — that is, to be able to explain, in language that is unique to their field and compelling to their colleagues and customers, why what they do matters and how they expect to win.

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Innovation has never been more accessible. There is lots of work to be done, of course.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 12/3/12)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs Soren Kaplan The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders [.]. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Robert D. Austin, Richard L.

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You Need a Community, Not a Network

Harvard Business Review

When networks develop into communities, the results can be powerful. Consider Ashoka , which provides start-up funding and support for social innovators worldwide. At Best Buy in the early 2000s, Julie Gilbert was in charge of an internal network aimed at developing female leaders.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Our colleague Clark Gilbert described more than a decade ago a great irony of disruption. Why did this happen? An easy explanation is myopia. What new opportunities does the disruption open up?

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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S. Spotting disruptive business models early is very powerful but arguably difficult. Disruptive innovation Innovation' newspaper industry.