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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends-the undercurrents of radical, systemic change-are crashing into each other. Blog Post ).

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Create Your Own Luck

Mills Scofield

You know how much I believe in serendipity & random collisions (a la Saul Kaplan !). SAMIR RATH is a financial technology entrepreneur and angel investor working with technology startups globally from over 20 countries. He began his career as a Macroeconomist for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Wiseman 155
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Creating A Purpose-Driven Corporation

The Horizons Tracker

Despite this, there is a growing desire for corporations to be better stakeholders, with Wharton’s Sarah Kaplan outlining as much in her latest book, The 360° Corporation. In it, she outlines a rupture in the traditional career path that sees someone earn well before giving back through volunteering or charitable giving.

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Throw Your Life a Curve

Harvard Business Review

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths. Let's do a quick review.

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What the Best Nonprofits Know About Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Many of these nonprofits use technology, but the way they transform perceived weaknesses into strengths — nonprofit judo — can inspire any social venture. Consider TalkingPoints, a nonprofit with a mission to increase student achievement by meaningfully connecting teachers and families through mobile technology.

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What Great Social Media Campaigns Get Right

Harvard Business Review

The web did not invent community-driven brands – just think of Harley Davidson — but technology has surely made the strategy more popular. Its founder, Saul Kaplan , is a self-professed innovation junkie. While digital technology can empower social initiatives, they are essentially human endeavors.

Media 10