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Business School Professors Should Be Like Movie Directors

Harvard Business Review

Because we train future leaders and shape how organizations create value for societies. Employers expect us to train our leaders to create value on this new frontier, as they should. As business school professors, we always ask ourselves why we are needed. But will students need us in the same capacity in the future?

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The Art of HR: Building REAL Social Networks

LDRLB

Handy was mostly correct in his predictions, but even he probably did not foresee the explosion and extent of the technology and networks that would make this possible. HR leaders must also be able to train leaders on how to effectively navigate the informal social network within the organization.

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Technology Alone Won’t Solve Our Collaboration Problems

Harvard Business Review

As a case in point, I just found out the precise location of a package in transit from China to France, all while on a train going through the forest. Our fast moving, globally networked economy simply was not possible a few years ago. Sure, these technological improvements help in many ways.