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- Cancer won't keep me down, says Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett has announced that he has prostate cancer, but says his illness is "not remotely life-threatening or even debilitating in any meaningful way." The 81-year-old Berkshire Hathaway chief likely disclosed his condition to curtail rumors that something more serious was going on, writes Diane Brady. "Now that the world's most famous investor has decided investors deserve to hear about his cancer diagnosis, perhaps he'll show similar transparency when it comes to talking about succession," she adds. Bloomberg Businessweek
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- Soldiers head to business school
Veterans and active servicemen are taking their leadership skills to B-school. Their focus and experience with life-and-death decisions makes them natural business leaders, experts say, while MBA training can help serving officers climb the ranks. "It would be very hard to come across a career sector that tests team skills and leadership skills more than the military," says David Simpson, London Business School's associate director of degree programs. The Wall Street Journal
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- What's the point of having a corporate HQ?
Researchers know remarkably little about the role that corporate headquarters play in the strategic and operational lives of major companies. To remedy that, Harvard University researchers used e-mail records to reconstruct the working relationships between HQ and line-position employees. Headquarters workers tend to have far larger workplace networks and function as brokers between individuals throughout the operation, the researchers found. HBS Working Knowledge
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- Nice guys don't innovate
If you want to spur innovation, you should dial up your tolerance for unpleasant, abrasive people, Simon Rucker writes. People who come up with truly great ideas seldom have time to worry about treading on toes, Rucker explains. "Collegiality may make the process more pleasant and more fun, but that's a recipe for becoming an innovation also-ran," he writes. Harvard Business Review online/HBR Blog Network
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- Why bosses should get creative
Bosses need to get everyone in their company innovating -- and the best way to make that happen is to get personally involved with creative projects, writes Scott D. Anthony. "Innovation is an unnatural act at many companies. Leaders need to regularly role model desired behaviors to help shape their organization's culture," Anthony writes. CNNMoney/Fortune
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- Titanic passengers' last meal was "not very sexy," chef says
A group of chefs set out to replicate the Titanic first-class passengers' last meal but found the cuisine too heavy and decadent for modern palates. The liner's 2,223 passengers had been expected to gorge themselves on 111,000 pounds of meat, fish and poultry, along with 40,000 eggs and 40 tons of potatoes, during their week at sea. "Everybody ate like locusts back then," chef Rob McCue complains. "They ate their weight." VanityFair.com
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