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Leadership, Passion, And Transformation

Joseph Lalonde

Positional leaders—those with name plaques on wooden doors but impotent in influence are the gatekeepers of this ideology. Moreover, disengagement and higher instances of absenteeism are reported among workers who underutilize their gifts in their position. This is a guest article from Rosalind Henderson.

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This is Critical to Building an Agile, Change Adaptive Organization

The Practical Leader

” That’s a key conclusion of a major study by Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and the Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute. Identify those things you directly control, can influence, and don’t control at all. Do the same for things you can influence.

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Exit, Voice, and Albert O. Hirschman

Harvard Business Review

Do you a) switch over to the Democrats, b) raise hell in the media, or c) try to stay welcome in the party's corridors of power in order to quietly exercise your influence? Book report to come.). You're a Republican intellectual — David Frum , say — dismayed by the direction your party has taken over past few years.