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Want To Be A Better Leader? Industry Experts Reveal Their Secrets

News from German International Graduate School of Management and Administration

“Being humble, tolerant and innovative are the three main qualities that professionals believe are key to becoming a successful leader, according to new research conducted by GISMA Business School.

“GISMA spoke with some of the UK’s most successful business leaders to find out what they believed the best leadership qualities to be; according to those who have already mastered the skills.

“Those questioned by GISMA shared that, in their experience, the top five traits that make a good leader are:

“1. Having patience

“2. Being respectful

“3. Being inspiring

“4. Having a clear vision

“5. Being observant”

Deliveroo: From Innovative Start-Up To Global Business

News from London Business School

“Deliveroo, which won the Best Beats First category in last year’s Real Innovation Awards, has been valued at more than US$2 billion (£1.5 billion) in its latest investment round. This makes it one of Britain’s most valuable private companies, despite it having recorded a gross profit margin of less than 1% last year.

“The high-quality food delivery company, which operates in 84 cities across 12 countries, picked up $275m in its fifth funding round, from investors including Bridgepoint, DST Global and Greenoaks Capital. US VC firm General Catalyst Partners also participated. The round will fund expansion into new markets and help it invest in its RooBox business, which gives restaurants access to additional off-site kitchen space.”

7 Effective Ways To Lead Teams

News from Harvard Business School

“Very few businesses today can exist today without effective team work. So it’s surprising that while many managers are regularly coached on how to lead individuals, training in team leadership is much more rare.

“Research by Harvard Business School professors might help. The following articles from our archive address several topics: why “teaming” is so important; the types of managers who make the best team leaders; temporary teams versus standing teams; what we can learn from sports teams; what leadership looks like when a team literally faces life or death, and creating a team to build a city of the future.”

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Building Young Leaders In Peru

News from Dartmouth Tuck School of Business

“Two years ago, Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor T’88 spoke movingly at the Tuck Investiture ceremony about his decision to improve the education system in his home country of Peru.

“He was tired of seeing Peru at the bottom of the education rankings, and saddened by the way the poor schools robbed Peru of future leaders. So he used the financial and organizational power of his conglomerate, Intercorp, to start Innova Schools: an affordable, innovative, and high-quality private school system targeted to the emerging middle class.”

How AI Will Change Strategy: A Thought Experiment

News from Harvard Business School

“How will AI change strategy? That’s the single most common question the three of us are asked from corporate executives, and it’s not trivial to answer. AI is fundamentally a prediction technology. As advances in AI make prediction cheaper, economic theory dictates that we’ll use prediction more frequently and widely, and the value of complements to prediction – like human judgment – will rise. But what does all this mean for strategy?

“Here’s a thought experiment we’ve been using to answer that question. Most people are familiar with shopping at Amazon. Like with most online retailers, you visit their website, shop for items, place them in your ‘basket,’ pay for them, and then Amazon ships them to you. Right now, Amazon’s business model is shopping-then-shipping.”

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