Mentors and Mavens
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Innovation is nothing but a new combination of old ideas: Sheena Iyengar
Creativity is not reserved for a select few, anyone can be creative once they understand the roadmap to innovation, says Columbia Business School professor Sheena Iyengar
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Nothing as powerful as culture that can influence behaviour: Marcus Collins
In For The Culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want To Be, Marcus Collins talks about leveraging the power of cultural identity, building brand love, and getting people to act in predictable ways
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Life is not a series of linear stages defined by age: Mauro F Guillen
In his latest book The Perennials: The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society, author Mauro F Guillén exhorts us to rethink the sequential model of life that has long been almost a norm
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Build dimensionality into your connections: Rob Cross
Rob Cross, author and senior vice president of research at the Institute for Corporate Productivity, shares strategies to deal with microstress and its ripple effects
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'Be the adult in the room': Amy Gallo shares principles that will help you get along with anyone at workplace
Amy Gallo, a workplace expert and author of Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People) and the HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict, unpacks strategies to deal with difficult coworkers
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Companies should always focus on getting better, not bigger: Alex Hill
Alex Hill, author and professor at Kingston University London, highlights the perks of looking beyond the short term and immediate shareholder value
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Anxiety can be turned into a leadership superpower: Morra Aarons-Mele
Real leaders need to be vulnerable, authentic and skilled at driving their teams through challenging times, says the author of The Anxious Achiever. She reframes how we think about anxiety in the context of leadership and organisations
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It's possible to create the new without destruction or disruption: W Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
The professors at Insead unveil the concept of 'non-disruptive creation' in their new book Beyond Disruption
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Leadership is simply a series of moments: Kirstin Ferguson
Effective leadership demands getting past stereotypes and drawing upon both intellectual and emotional virtues at work, argues award-winning leadership expert Kirstin Ferguson in her book Head & Heart: The Art of Modern Leadership
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There's much to learn from the hacks of small organisations: Paulo Savaget
Paulo Savaget, author of The Four Workarounds, and an associate professor at Oxford University's Engineering Sciences Department and the Saïd Business School, talks about four unconventional ways to work around problems
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Remember there is more to human intelligence than IQ: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
How can we reclaim our humanity to display our most virtuous side and avoid being dehumanised by technology? Columbia University Professor Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic explores this critical question in I, Human, his new book