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How Your Leadership Team Can Slow Down to Speed Up

The Practical Leader

An old fable tells of a farmer with a wagon brimming full of cabbage heading to a new market. He stops for directions and asks, “How far is it to the market?” There are many reasons leadership teams allow their priorities to be badly distorted. This issue focuses on strategic leadership.

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What is the Price?

Kevin Eikenberry

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe What is the Price? The book is called The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do and is written by NY TImes Editorial Board member Eduardo Porter.

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

This gives you enough money to fund you pet projects or cut costs without any effort when you are forced to do so. Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. Strategic Planning execution innovation leadership strategy'

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The Best Companies Know How to Balance Strategy and Purpose

Harvard Business Review

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. The once-dominant Nokia soon lost much of its market cap and was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Insight Center.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare. The Hidden Indicators of a Failing Project.

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Six Ways to Grow Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Some companies have allowed employees up to 20% of their time to work on their own projects, but I know of no company that helps leaders free up their time to work on the frontier of their jobs. Instead, once people have leadership responsibilities, their calendar gets crammed with more and more meetings and trips.

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

For each city or region the right mix of programs depends on what outcomes the leadership of that area is trying to achieve. A start-up might need an angel investor who believes in the project to provide initial equity. In some areas and sectors, the market provides all the capital needed.