Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 8, 2014

When you succeed at something big, was it due to the market, the price, the positioning, the long hours, the social media campaign, the right leadership, the right employees? Of course your leadership bio makes you sound like a rock star. Nido explains that success is often wasted, when we miss the opportunity to learn from it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

At Best Buy in the early 2000s, Julie Gilbert was in charge of an internal network aimed at developing female leaders. Eager to change that, Gilbert encouraged her group to reach out to women customers. Informal leadership Managing people'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

In the business world, marketers use enchantment all the time. And creativity in general is the key to unlocking “ big magic ,” as the writer Elizabeth Gilbert calls it. We often find it when we experience nature, art, or entertainment, and, of course, when we fall in love. Have a challenging mission.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. 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.

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