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True Leaders Believe Dissent Is an Obligation

Harvard Business Review

In a world hungry for great leadership, these are just a few of the questions that too many leaders seem incapable of answering. I first encountered the term last year, in an intriguing interview with a CEO named Victor Ho, cofounder of a customer loyalty company that has raised more than $100 million in venture funding.

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A New CEO's Reinvention Road Map

Harvard Business Review

I'm not one to manage by magazine but, if I were, "The Reinvention Roller Coaster: Risking the Present for a Powerful Future" would be required reading. We're fortunate to own a leadership position amongst our traditional competitors but recognize that we're at a point at which our benchmark must move. Especially right now.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. It all starts, as the stories below show, with purpose-driven leadership: a determination to provide high-quality, ultra-affordable health care to all, regardless of ability to pay: Saving Eyesight at a Fraction of the Cost. costs quite dramatically over the next decade. His life was set.

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Getting Smarter about Google's "Brain Drain"

Harvard Business Review

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

” What we’ve observed is that in most organizations, the innovation power­train is missing several critical components. In our experience, most leadership development programs give scant attention to these innovation-enabling attitudes and behaviors. Working to eliminate bureaucratic impediments to innovation.

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Playing a Dangerous Game With Job Creation

Harvard Business Review

technological and economic leadership in the world. He insisted that the "first to invent" patent system gave his firm the time not only to determine which were the best inventions to pursue without squandering the firm's precious resources, but to secure venture funding as well.