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Top 30 Leadership Blogs 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I'm not sure Godin's work classifies as leadership…though I do read it every day, it's more for marketing tips and deep thoughts. I did notice two missing blogs: Positive Organizational Behavior at [link]. Great work… [link] davidburkus Good list. And LeaderLab at [link].

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Building the next leadership pipeline with short-term executive programs in Top B-schools

HR Digest

A finance expert who wants now to expand into marketing or customer dealings can choose from a myriad of short courses that deal in the same fields. . As people advance in their industry, they may need to develop leadership, finance, or accounting skills, which they can acquire through these EMBAs or short business courses.

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Management by Extremes

Deming Institute

Or, would it be better to remove color as a potential market place differentiator and, instead, offer “Any color you like, as long as it’s white”? Is there a place for an aircraft manufacturer to offer their airline customers 108 shades of white paint, as did an aerospace company in the 1990s?

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MBAs Should Take Competency Tests

Harvard Business Review

The situation is somewhat like the one American industrial companies faced in the 1970s and '80s when product quality slipped but was covered up by marketing and moving up-market. Too many students are distracted and disengaged. Other fields do this. Graduating law students have to pass bar examinations in order to practice law.

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Should You Get an MBA?

Harvard Business Review

Previously it focused on quantitative analysis in areas such as finance and operations, with little emphasis on other aspects of organizational life. MBA programs responded by expanding their offerings in areas such as strategy, organizational behavior and leadership. So ask yourself: What market am I in now?

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Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company. For example, in finance courses students learn that profitability and return on assets is the measure of business success.

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Lessons from the Three Cups of Tea Controversy

Harvard Business Review

Any manager who has ever tried to shift organizational behaviors by rolling out a new piece of software knows this well. Adam Richardson, Assistant VP of Strategy and Marketing at global innovation firm frog design , is the author of Innovation X: Why a Company's Toughest Problems are its Greatest Advantage.

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