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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”. For this to happen companies need to invest in closing the Strategy Execution Skills Gap.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/29/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Eccher Peter Gray: Part 2 Rob Goffee Rutger von Post strategy+business talent management The McKinsey Quarterly The Referral Engine These Soft Skills Can Go a Long Way Thomas Williams Zig Zag' Lawler III Gareth Jones HBR How to Use Your Online Network to Test Ideas John Jantsch Keith Sawyer Management Tip of the Day motivation Paul H.

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How to Put Leadership Back into Strategy

LDRLB

This post is adapted from a larger interview conducted by Ken Favaro and Art Kleiner. It takes the whole brain—intuition and analytic skills—to do it well. [Editor’s Note: We’re delighted to be collaborating with Strategy+Business to bring you interviews with top thought leaders in leadership, innovation, and strategt.

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Mindfulness as a Management Technique Goes Back to at Least the 1970s

Harvard Business Review

Mindfulness is now seen as a crucial skill in business. It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. Kwanchai Lerttanapunyaporn / EyeEm/Getty Images. But although mindfulness may seem to be a fairly new phenomenon, it’s not.

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More Reasons Women Need to Negotiate Their Salaries

Harvard Business Review

More than 150 managers were asked to allocate a fixed pool of money for raises among equally skilled employees. After losing her lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins, Ellen Pao made an executive decision to ban salary negotiations at Reddit where she is interim CEO. And another study found that people behaved as this model predicts.

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Here's What the Internet Is Up To

Harvard Business Review

As she does every year, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins has bestowed upon us over a hundred slides that analyze internet trends. And, finally, there are the two trends featured in slides 66 onward: the rise of mobile in China and the current high-skills immigration gap in the U.S. Mobile in China and Collecting Your Fitness Data.

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How to Finance the Scale-Up of Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Vaunted valley VC, Eugene Kleiner said it well: “ The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed round.” Many an entrepreneur has passed on the hors d’oeuvres, only to regret it later.