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Expert Interview Series: Roddy Millar Helps Business Leaders Translate Academic Research to Innovative Leadership

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He’s the founder and Managing Editor for IEDP – covering the global executive development sector– and cofounder of IEDP’s sister organization, Ideas for Leaders , which reviews, distills and shares the latest research on business leadership coming out of universities and business schools around the globe.

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Spotting the Great but Imperfect Resume

Harvard Business Review

In researching my book The Rare Find , I focused on a small group of world-class organizations that pull ahead of competitors by making the most of jagged-resume candidates. Jagged-resume hiring can succeed only if the cultural fit between candidate and company is unusually good, so warning flags in that area are taken seriously.

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Searching for the Reasons Behind Google Labs' Demise

Harvard Business Review

No one who knows him doubts Page's unwavering commitment to the innovation culture of the company he cofounded. Key elements of Google Labs will be preserved and shifted into the relevant product groups like Gmail. That possibility raises an important question that cuts to the core of Google's cultural values and success.

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What New Team Leaders Should Do First

Harvard Business Review

How do you form group norms, establish clear goals, and create an environment where everyone feels comfortable and motivated to contribute? People form opinions pretty quickly, and these opinions tend to be sticky,” says Michael Watkins, the cofounder of Genesis Advisers and author of the updated The First 90 Days. “If

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Too Many Experts Can Hurt Your Innovation Projects

Harvard Business Review

To be sure, entrepreneurs in highly specialized and technical industries need the knowledge that only users (doctors, lawyers, engineers, and the like) can provide. Any less and the company will lose sight of what its customers need; any more and the group will tend to converge on old ideas. If you need an appendectomy, call a surgeon.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. If the group had had an idea for a smartphone app, they would have been off to the races, but there was little interest in hard technology like theirs.

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Lessons from Yelp’s Empirical Approach to Diversity

Harvard Business Review

These figures were similar at other tech companies, most of which had fewer than 20% of their technical positions filled by women and had low representation of black and Hispanic employees. The percentage of technical positions filled by women at Yelp in the U.S. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female.