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A Four-wheel-drive Diamond in the Rough Leadership Model

Great Leadership By Dan

What practitioners want and need, in my experience, is a practical framework that will allow them to influence in a variety of settings and incorporate new insights and various theoretical perspectives easily. The quality of our relationship with those people, that is our ability to influence them, is represented by the northwest axis.

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Profit Is Less About Good Management than You Think

Harvard Business Review

Benjamin Graham , the father of value investing, seldom met the managers of the companies he invested in because he felt they would tell him only what they wished him to hear and because he didn’t want to be influenced by impressions of personality.

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How NASA Uses Telemedicine to Care for Astronauts in Space

Harvard Business Review

There is careful consideration of the “mission profile,” a broad set of factors that influence health and medical needs and risks, such as flight duration, launch and landing modes, medical evacuation capability, and time to definitive medical care.

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Research: The Digitization of Banks Disproportionately Hurts Women Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

These meetings allowed for the exchange of important information about the business model, intangible assets, future prospects, and more. The origin of these biases has been linked to gender stereotyping, where men entrepreneurs are perceived as being more ambitious and having more entrepreneurial potential than women.

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

The information most likely to influence the future comes from looking out the window, not in the mirror. The ultimate goal is to treat information as a tangible flow rather than an intangible asset stuck on the balance sheet. To apply analytics to the future, though, self-knowledge is insufficient.

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

The information most likely to influence the future comes from looking out the window, not in the mirror. The ultimate goal is to treat information as a tangible flow rather than an intangible asset stuck on the balance sheet. To apply analytics to the future, though, self-knowledge is insufficient.