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Leadership Infrastructure – A Prerequisite To Mightiness

Tanveer Naseer

In business, leadership infrastructure is the sum total of all the management systems, processes, leadership teams, skill sets, and disciplines that enable companies to grow from small operations into midsized or large firms. Without them, we’re Mom and Pop, and that’s all we ever will be, no matter how much cash flow we generate.

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Why the Health of Your Doctor Matters

Michael Lee Stallard

In addition to caring for patients in the exam room or operating suite, physicians face challenges of navigating the reporting requirements of new payment models. His life took a turn in 2004 and he “managed to taper off the drugs.” Practicing medicine these days is stressful. Effects of Trauma.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004. In the media and internet industries, it turns out to be very important when operating in China.

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Midsized Firms Can Survive a Cash Crisis

Harvard Business Review

Operational meltdowns can devour a midsized company’s cash. The story of MBH Architects, a northern California firm that designs retail stores, conveys an important lesson on how to survive such a cash crisis. In 2006 and 2007, the partners earned big bonuses. Not growth, or even profits. firm in 1989.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Leaders who succeed at the job usually do so by combing through the company in search of noncore assets to shed, businesses to sell, activities to stop, functions to eliminate, and product lines to simplify, as Steve Jobs did when he took back the reins at Apple in 1997, and as Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of Lego, did in 2004.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

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How to Manage Multiple Partnerships

Harvard Business Review

Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. The 2006 ruling of Judge Margaret McVeigh of the New Jersey Superior Court highlights the root of the problem with exclusivity in partnership contracts: Amazon.com did not want a ten year agreement.