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Interview: Ideas can now spread and scale through networks, rather than hierarchies

November 26, 2019December 1, 2019

As a former executive at Apple and Autodesk, and consultant for a number of other Silicon Valley companies, Nilofer Merchant has a pretty good idea of how to move things …

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In Harvard Business Review: Stop Eliminating Perfectly Good Candidates

March 28, 2019December 1, 2019

75% of perfectly qualified candidates don’t make it through the main screening tool used by corporations. This post originally appeared in Harvard Business Review.  I could tell right away from …

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What Do You Need to Know?

September 19, 2018October 31, 2018

Sarah Judd Welch, a friend and colleague, reminded me I’ve not been writing much on my blog for the last few months and shouldn’t I be? I wrote her back …

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What Will Happen To Your Job?

June 13, 2018December 1, 2019

Most jobs today are scoped in such a way they’ll be easily replaced by artificial intelligence. I remember being slightly nauseous when I learned that 60% of US jobs and …

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On Leadership as Purpose Alignment: Q&A with the London School of Economics

April 5, 2018April 5, 2018

Earlier this week, the London School of Economics and Political Science shared a Q&A that we worked on together about how to scale ideas through networks. While all of the …

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Dear Nilofer, How Do I Keep Everyone Happy While Innovating?

March 19, 2018March 21, 2018

Have question? Feel free to share in response to my bi-weekly newsletter. I’ll pick one periodically to post here.  From Sue M.: With innovation being such a hot topic, what …

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Why The Metric Matters

January 10, 2018January 10, 2018

Around this time last year, my son was coming home with some really (!) disappointing grades. It was driving my husband and I a little crazy cause we knew he …

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Belonging Precedes “Doing Stuff”

December 21, 2017January 4, 2018

What Your Organization Needs to Increase Innovation Belonging is a seemingly little thing that shapes everything. We each need to belong. Having a sense of belonging is, in fact, a …

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IN HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: The Insidious Economic Impact of Sexual Harassment

November 30, 2017

Yesterday, I published the below article in Harvard Business Review. I started writing this piece about two months ago, thinking somehow that it was “timely.” Sadly, the news cycle kept …

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