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December 11, 2013 Mary Barra and the New General Motors By Rosabeth Moss Kanter This time, what's good for GM really is what's good for America.

Use the Office Holiday Party to Advance Your Career by Elizabeth Grace Saunders Seven tips for optimizing this fun-bligation. Managing yourself When It's Hard to Celebrate Your Colleague's Success by Ron Ashkenas What to do when jumping for joy isn't an option. Managing people Learn How to Spot Portable Talent by Claudio Fernández-Aráoz Because most executives don't transition to new roles as well as you'd think. Operations For Cross-Functional Change, a Good Disruption Helps by Brad Power The gravitational force of silos and the status quo will always be formidable. Managing yourself The Case for Slacking Off by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries Doing nothing is socially unacceptable. That's why we're so afraid of it. Small/medium business Is There Hope for Small Firms, the Have-Nots in the World of Big Data? by Christina Donnelly Yes, but only if consumers speak out. Mergers & Acquisitions CEOs Appear to Have Little Faith in Their Companies' Acquisitions by The Daily Stat If CEOs truly felt their acquisitions would benefit the stock price, they wouldn't sell their shares. Networking Our Dangerous Obsession with External Recognition by Daniel Gulati You can tweet your way to visibility, not vision.

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