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Develop Strategic Thinkers Throughout Your Organization
February 9, 2014 Editor 0
In study after study, strategic thinkers are found to be among the most highly effective leaders. And while there is an abundance of courses, books, articles and opinions on the process of strategic planning, the focus is typically on an isolated process that might happen once or twice per year. In contrast, a true strategic […]
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Modernizing education: You can’t find a job in your textbook
April 25, 2013 Editor 0
New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Tom Friedman talks with Tony Wagner, Harvard education specialist, about the problems associated with throwing graduates from an outdated education system into an evolved job market. In response to an inquiring email from Friedman, Wagner says:
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The Skills Most Entrepreneurs Lack
April 2, 2013 Editor 0
Entrepreneurs are a unique group of people, but they behave in patterns. In fact, as I recently wrote here on HBR, my firm’s research shows that most serial entrepreneurs display persuasion, leadership, personal accountability, goal orientation, and interpersonal skills. But in that same study, we also discovered a set of skills they do not possess.
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Review of Skill and the Entrepreneurial Process
December 8, 2012 Editor 0
Abstract Purpose – To address the fundamental nature of skill and identify how an examination of skill may be introduced into theoretical understanding of the entrepreneurial
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Data Is Useless Without the Skills to Analyze It
September 15, 2012 Editor 0
Do your employees have the skills to benefit from big data? As Tom Davenport and DJ Patil note in their October Harvard Business Review article on the rise of the data scientist, the advent of the big data era means that analyzing large, messy, unstructured data is going to increasingly form part of everyone’s work.
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The Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
November 25, 2011 Editor 0
Creativity and innovative thinking are not genetic traits. What makes people great innovators is not their genetic makeup, but a set of skills and behaviors. The good news: anyone can learn, practice, and master the skills necessary to become a disruptive innovator.
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