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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

Leading Blog

As Harvard lecturer and global trend watcher Vikram Mansharamani shows in this eye-opening and perspective-shifting book, our complex, data-flooded world has made us ever more reliant on experts, protocols, and technology. Too often, we've stopped thinking for ourselves. Dave Cote is intimately familiar with this problem.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. His first act was to abolish IBM's corporate executive committee. Directness. Pragmatism.

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Sam Palmisano's Transformation of IBM

Harvard Business Review

When Palmisano took over in early 2002, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services (such as back-office outsourcing), and personal computers (PCs). Palmisano became leader of a great company that had stumbled badly in the 1980s and had been returned to health in the 1990's by Lou Gerstner.

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Blockbuster Becomes a Casualty of Big Bang Disruption

Harvard Business Review

The shutdown will be completed by early 2014, bringing to a close a dramatic story of rise and fall at the hands of disruptive technological innovation, or what we have called “ big bang disruption.” At its peak, the company operated 10,000 stores. As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion.

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Why Individuals No Longer Rule on Sales Teams

Harvard Business Review

Our colleagues in Corporate Executive Board’s HR practice have documented an extraordinary shift in the relationship between individual achievement and business unit profitability, both across the enterprise and within the sales function. Even in sales, network performance now accounts for about 44% of the impact. An HBR Insight Center.

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Don’t Let Your Company Get Trapped by Success

Harvard Business Review

This requires applying different approaches to strategy and execution in different parts of their business, as well as constantly re-balancing exploitation (generating cash to support growth) and exploration (finding winning products and models). Adopt the right approach to strategy and execution in each part of the business.