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

IdeaScale

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. They wanted to be on the forefront of some technical field. Bring such candidates into play, and suddenly tomorrow's unexpected stars become visible.

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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. Google Labs generated insights into technical elements and features, as well as customer engagement.

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

Harvard Business Review

So we have to use lessons from the science of attention blindness to construct teams in a way that eliminates group think (where the group rallies around one idea oftentimes at the expense of others that may have been "blind") and yields innovative new ideas they might be missing if they're not actively addressing blind spots.

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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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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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As Machines Take Jobs, Companies Need to Get Creative About Making New Ones

Harvard Business Review

Or child care, elder care, psychological services, rehabilitation, or meeting space for community groups? Shouldn’t the next autonomous truck company be cofounded by technologists and truck drivers? Shouldn’t next-generation autonomous farms be cofounded by technologists and farmers?