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Linkorama : Women and leadership - One surprising thing we learned as a result of talking with female leaders was that they often fail to reciprocate and find expectations that they should do so distasteful. A senior partner at McKinsey noted that men naturally understand that you must “
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Why Startups Fail - An entrepreneur recently asked me why startups fail. Startups fail because they run out of money.
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Linkorama : The Power Paradox - True power requires modesty and empathy, not force and coercion, argues Dacher Keltner. But what people want from leaders—social intelligence—is what is damaged by the experience of power.
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25 month ago
Linkorama : The 'Peanut Butter Manifesto' - An internal document by Brad Garlinghouse, a Yahoo senior vice president, says Yahoo is spreading its resources too thinly, like peanut butter on a slice of bread.
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29 month ago
Linkorama : Hit the Road, Jack! - traditional (Welch-esque) “rules of management†that have been typically employed by more established corporations—like GE—and compares them with new and emerging management trends that have propelled some of the newer, growing c
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31 month ago
Linkorama : Feedback is Leadership? - If the growing product is not headed in the right direction how do we know? Feedback. How do we know where to go get headed in the right direction? Feedback. From the system itself.
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32 month ago
Linkorama : Harvesting Implicit Knowledge - “That man is a head taller than me. That may change.â€
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35 month ago
WillPate : Pareto's Principle - The 80-20 Rule - "The 80/20 Rule means that in anything a few (20 percent) are vital and many(80 percent) are trivial."
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36 month ago
Rod Begbie : Google: Ten Golden Rules - Some interesting notes on Google's culture. "Nobody throws chairs at Google, unlike management practices used at some other well-known technology companies." Snerk. [via] #
kayodeok : Google: Ten Golden Rules - Knowledge workers believe they are paid to be effective, not to work 9 to 5, and that smart businesses will "strip away everything that gets in their knowledge workers' way."
jkottke : Seven key principles that Google uses to make their employees more effective - Seven key principles that Google uses to make their employees more effective. "At Google, the role of the manager is that of an aggregator of viewpoints, not the dictator of decisions."
Linkorama : Google: Ten Golden Rules - At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have just as much effort and creativity in this domain as in new product development.
WillPate : Google's Ten Golden Rules - How they manage knowledge workers.
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39 month ago
WillPate : Bill Strickland on artists and entrepreneurs
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40 month ago
Linkorama : Open source leadership - ... leadership is bottom-up, community and coordination oriented and not focused on the exercise of authority.
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40 month ago
WillPate : What Business Can Learn from Open Source
Wayne Burkett : What Business Can Learn from Open Source - The startup cheering is tedious, but Graham's thoughts on modern office environments are dead on. #
Linkorama : What Business Can Learn from Open Source - The movement behind the server market and more
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41 month ago
Linkorama : Why you must lead or follow - Nice essay on leadership
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