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Leadership Perspective from Desert Island Donkeys

Let's Grow Leaders

Leadership perspective creates different kinds of creative solutions that make far more sense and have more support than the limited but obvious approach you might have started with. Effective teams and good leaders should be having good, productive conflict around ideas that help us to make better decisions.

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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

Leading Blog

When a company diversified, it bought companies in other businesses, or else developed new businesses internally, to sell additional products or services, as with Honda, which has exploited its expertise in motors to produce a variety of other vehicles — outboard motors, lawnmowers, ATVs, and so on. Structuring in Sevens.

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Funders Can Give More than Money

Harvard Business Review

With the leadership of Opportunity's Geralyn Sheehan , a CED specialist, we forged ahead, investing resources to build programs in four areas: agriculture financing, training, and processing; artisan training and product distribution; a rural technical high school and community infrastructure; and leadership development work.

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What a Year of Job Rejections Taught Me About Pitching Myself

Harvard Business Review

Instead of thinking as a job applicant, I had to think of myself as a product and identify ways to create demand around hiring me. I spent a couple of days gathering data about the tourism industry and the company’s current footprint in the market, and identified strategic opportunities for them there.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

Customers overwhelmingly prefer products tied to a social cause. Collaborative leadership was critical for the revitalization of Central Park in New York City. It also requires visionary leadership, stakeholder engagement, and operating transparency between partners.

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China Needs a New Generation of Dreamers (and New Dreams)

Harvard Business Review

Maybe, even, another Chinese big-dreamer would be Huang Nubo, founder and chairman of Beijing Zhongkun Investment Group, who is both a philanthropist (at Beijing University) and an entrepreneur who tried to buy 300 square kilometers of land in Northwestern Iceland as a site for Chinese tourism and leisure.

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Why President Kagame Runs Rwanda Like a Business

Harvard Business Review

So far, Rwanda''s three big clusters are coffee, tea, and tourism, but Porter is convinced there are more to come. In the initial three areas of coffee, tea, and tourism, that effort has advanced quite far now. Rwanda is winning international awards and marketing globally, and tourism is booming. What are the bottlenecks?

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