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HP Headed to Hotel California?

Women on Business

HP has not had a stellar track record when it comes to leadership and their choices have often gotten them into sticky situations. It has all the bells and whistles; its wireless, Bluetooth compatible and an all in one (fax, scanner, and printer) machine. So let’s look. HP Has a Poor Track Record in Past CEO Selection.

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E-Coaching Roles

Marshall Goldsmith

The art of developing leaders will evolve with the technology that connects people through both wired and wireless networks. Experience difficulties while searching for high-quality leadership development tools. For example, some leaders may need to change behavior; others may need functional training in marketing or finance.

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New MBAs Should Start Their Careers in Frontier Markets

Harvard Business Review

’” Under a different CEO, Econet Wireless Nigeria went on to build a nationwide network of street-side airtime sales. Launching this week is the ambitious African Business Fellowship, which Masiyiwa is chairing with implementing partners the African Leadership Network and Management Leadership for Tomorrow.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. Even before announcing his new cabinet, Mnangagwa installed a key reformist, Patrick Chinamasa, as acting finance minister, tasked with tackling corruption and re-engaging with international institutions to unlock funds to ease liquidity shortages.

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Big Companies Can Unleash Innovation, Rather than Shackle It

Harvard Business Review

It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices. It could mimic pieces of Medtronic's approach, such as the diagnostic camps and a financing plan. Insurance is still rare in India, so Medtronic had to make its pacemaker more affordable.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

EB operates Ilum as a separate business, while still drawing on Merck’s established corporate resources in IT, finance, privacy, compliance, and legal. As a great organizational scholar, James March, once noted, “ Leadership involves plumbing as well as poetry.” It’s not just products.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.