Thought Leadership
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Do We Listen To Opinion Leaders?
Are there leaders in everyday life? A long body of literature argues that a small number of individuals have an outsize influence on what the rest of us buy, wear, and consume. But marketing professionals and scholars have been debating how to make use of these opinion leaders
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Harnessing Social Media to Make a Difference
In three months a group trying to save a friend’s life used social networking tools to get over 24,000 South Asians to register for the National Marrow Donor Program. Their effort inspired Professor Jennifer Aaker to develop a course at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, The Power of Social Technology, which is supported by a set of social technology cases written with Victoria Chang, Alice LaPlante, and Sara Gaviser Leslie
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Basel III Clean Up Regulatory Reform Almost a Washout
Basel III is a framework of global regulatory standards aimed at making the banking system more resilient and therefore more resistant to systemic risks
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Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
Journalists are not supposed to act illegally
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Neuroleadership – Making Change Happen
Embracing neuroleadership, which this author describes as art of synchronizing the science of the brain with leadership behaviors, offers the best hope for effecting real change in a leader and within an organization. That’s because understanding neuroleadership helps us understand the impact that our emotions and behaviours – and the behaviours of those around us – has on our success and failure. Readers will learn the how easy it is to weave the principles of neuroleadership into organizationa
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The Second Coming Of The Internet Bubble?
Today’s entrepreneurs are in a feverish discovery mode of high technology and Internet business applications. Some startups will misread the potential of the technology and will take wrong turns
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How To Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci
Some advice from Michael Gelb who has taught Nike, IBM and Microsoft’s leaders how to think like Leonardo Da Vinci
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Nonprofits Must Change as Old Charitable Funding Models Decline
Organizations such as Goodwill Industries and the Camp Fire Girls of America have endured for more than 100 years. The key to their survival is change, not more of the same, their leaders told a business school audience
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Are You a Level-Six Leader?
Asking the question whom do you serve? is a powerful vector on which to build a useful typology of leadership
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Leadership Succession: How To Avoid A Crisis
In the C-suite, the need to develop and implement a plan for leadership succession is one of the most frequently discussed topics. Yet according to this author, the overwhelming majority of companies have done little about it. Executives who think they can wait will learn why implementing a plan right now can save their company — and their job.
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What It Means To Get 'Hooked'
The psychotherapist and author discusses what it means to get ‘hooked’ and how to get un-hooked