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

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Academia Provides a Wealth of Research on Effective Leadership. For leaders in particular, reviewing articles on sites like Ideas for Leaders can help stimulate thinking around management behavior and management practice. This can be tricky to do in management positions, Millar says.

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What Does an Aspiring Founder Need to Know?

Harvard Business Review

The survey results show that no single management skill stands out above the rest. Respondents indicated that founders need to be management jacks-of-all-trades, so to speak. The non-MBA founders shared the view that it is very important for future leaders of technology ventures to build a wide range of management skills.

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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. But the move undeniably represents a leadership perspective that the Labs might be as much organizational distraction as innovation engine. "Putting more wood behind fewer arrows" is the CEO's prioritization prerogative.

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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

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 Many managers inherit their teams, which often means they aren’t creating new goals, but clarifying existing ones. The first few weeks are critical.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

The small size of unicorns allows the top management teams to be directly and deeply involved in most of the strategic decisions, which are then implemented through a flat organization. This is makes it easier to take decisions and put them into practice very swiftly.

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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.