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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

Directors keep nudging these CEOs to play it safe, filling the management team with steady performers whose work history closely matches the job at hand, even if there's no sense of "wow!" They wanted to be on the forefront of some technical field. In the boardroom, though, such plans elicit frowns. in the job interviews.

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Why You May Be Blind to a Good Idea (and What to Do About It)

Harvard Business Review

But, for me, the management takeaway is that since we all see selectively but we don't all select the same things, we can leverage the different ways we slice and dice the world. I'm cofounder of an organization that develops innovative learning practices and technologies. It's that simple. And impossible to see.

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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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3 Ways Social Entrepreneurs Can Solve Their Talent Problem

Harvard Business Review

RippleWorks, a private foundation that supports emerging market entrepreneurs by providing them with leading Silicon Valley executives as advisors, asked those questions in a recent survey of 628 social entrepreneurs from all over the world. What do these enterprises need to scale up? And how can they do it?

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Why CEOs Should Share Their Long-Term Plans with Investors

Harvard Business Review

To date, 19 CEOs of S&P 500 companies — such as Becton Dickinson, AETNA, 3M, PG&E, and Unilever — have presented their plans to institutional investors representing in excess of $25 trillion in assets under management. The expectations for an effective long-term plan are described in SII’s Investor Letter to CEOs.

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When Big Companies Support Start-ups, Both Make More Money

Harvard Business Review

But if these two companies took business incubation seriously, and instead of just offering technical guidance on building apps, also offered business guidance, the impact on global GDP would be tremendous. Kirk and his two cofounders Neehar Giri and Nathan Krishnan had earlier done a venture-funded startup called Nextance.