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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. Leadership infrastructure is every bit as real as roads and bridges, electrical grids, and the Internet.

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Byron Wien’s 20 Lessons Learned

Michael Lee Stallard

While working at Morgan Stanley in New York City, I met and discovered the writings of several thoughtful market analysts. 1 strategist by SmartMoney.com based on his market calls during that year. In 2006, Mr. Wien was named by New York Magazine as one of the sixteen most influential people in Wall Street.

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The Market Wants Apple to Unveil a Time Machine

Harvard Business Review

In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company. Apple's General Counsel, Nancy Regina Heinen, left in 2006. (In There are other markets waiting to be disrupted, for sure. Executive exodus: In 2008, Tony Fadell, senior vice president of the iPod division, stepped down. His wife, the VP of HR at Apple, also left.

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Serving on Boards Helps Executives Get Promoted

Harvard Business Review

When Warren Buffett retired from Coca-Cola’s board in 2006, he said he no longer had the time necessary. In an effort to explore executives’ motivations for serving on boards, we looked at how board service is evaluated in the executive labor market. It was an incredible leadership school for me.

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Frugal Innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan

Harvard Business Review

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. For example, in 2004, Renault launched Logan, a small, no-frills family car. As a result, it has become Renault's best-selling car across recession-weary European markets as well as in many emerging markets.

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Nokia's Voyage From Tight-Knit Team to 'Burning Platform'

Harvard Business Review

Nokia's market capitalization did peak not long after my article appeared, but that had more to do with the deflation of a ridiculous tech-stock bubble than anything wrong with the company's business. This executive crew finally began to break up in 2004, with the departure of Baldauf, who had run Nokia's network equipment business.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.