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Executive Search for Legal Services: Balancing Scales and Skills

N2Growth Blog

Wilkins, Professor at Harvard Law School, notes, “Investing in leadership is about securing the intellectual capital and strategic vision that will determine your firm’s future.” That’s the level of foresight firms need if they’re to remain competitive in a landscape that rewards agility and innovation.

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3 Critical Components of a Shared Mental Model

Lead Change Blog

This develops a pride of ownership for the future of the Team and the Air Force. The “problem” with brilliant innovators, same as Fighter Pilots, is that when they are not given a clear vector on which to act, do not have a shared mental model of what the future and success should look like, they will develop their own path.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. The “intellectual capital” brought in by high-knowledge employees will be a major, if not the primary, competitive advantage. Provide opportunities for development and involvement. .

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Open Innovation: co-creation, and intrapreneurship

Innovation Excellence

He shares with us his thoughts on open innovation, brands co-creation, and intrapreneurship. 3) Co-creation is closely linked to open innovation: how would you balance between freedom and structure when adopting an open innovation approach? Keeping the open innovation entity distant or close to the corporation center?

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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. American companies and academic institutions possess unique competitive advantages in developing these global leaders.

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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." million developers to contribute to 260,000 projects.

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Can HP Change its DNA?

Harvard Business Review

It governs an organization's cultivation of its intellectual capital—how it leverages what it already knows how to do, and how it evolves its offering based on changing market demands. With hardware markets, money is spent upfront to develop a system.