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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

In addition to receiving traditional training, each participant designs and carries out a 100-day project that targets an important business challenge, such as increasing the firm’s footprint in the health care segment or developing new software to enhance mobile phones (these are real examples). Both teams exceeded their targets.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

The questions represent a short version of the survey I use with my students. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role. To start, assess the network you have today.

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