Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

So here it goes: I challenge you to do a two-year, full-time stint in government leadership, and to do it before your 70th birthday. What I discovered, much to my shock, was that at least in this one case, a governor wanted to make hiring decisions based not on politics, but on leadership talent. You might be thinking. No regrets!".

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

For instance, in 2004 a group of employees travelled to Mexico, where they rebuilt an orphanage and a community center. My dream was to build a family restaurant and not just a steak restaurant, but a place where everyone could come and have a quality meal for a great value. Success is not guaranteed – it’s earned.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Perhaps no term has so captured the global analyst community since the coinage of "emerging markets" itself. Clever turns of phrase can fool many except those who actually spent time in emerging markets and ask tough questions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

And under Ghosn's leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world's leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

"A general who fears to unsheathe his sword is not a good general," says Mr. Li Jiaxiang , Chairman of Air China from 2004 to 2008 and the #1 performing corporate leader in China according to our new ranking (just published in the Harvard Business Review China and the centerpiece for the magazine's launch events in Beijing and Shanghai).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

They avoid getting trapped on a growth treadmill, chasing multiple market opportunities where they have no right to win. That’s how Lego went from losing a million dollars a day in 2004 to being the world’s largest toy company in 2015. That’s why the quality and caliber of top leadership is so important.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

All eyes were on Goodell, the Commissioner of the NFL, to step up, assert the League’s values, and provide the leadership needed. There can be organizational paralysis, or a release of incredible and productive energy, and which of the two happens depends mainly on leadership. Crisis management Ethics Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. I know because I ask a second question: On a scale of one to five, how would you rate the quality of your current network? Give you a sounding board to flesh out your ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. You also need to get to know the leadership, adds Gulati. Case Study #1: Get to know the founder and spend quality time with the team. ” Check the financials.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

Failure in this period in HBR is most characterized by discussions of failings in service quality and performance. In the 2004-2006 period the major failure-related characteristic of the data is the CEO , namely CEO succession , CEO and board relationships, and mechanisms to support CEOs taking up their posts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

In an upcoming book and in a recent article in Harvard Business Review , my coauthor Christopher Zook and I identify the qualities of “the founder’s mentality” and show how all organizations, even those whose founders have long retired, can harness its vitalizing effects. Robbie Brozin and the insurgent mission.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. ” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

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