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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Contrast this with the fact that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month. As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works.

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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

Gary Hamel and C.K. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. But according to Prahalad and Hamel, firms should set unrealistic goals, not realistic goals. One result was my 2010 HBR blog (with Christian Sarkar) on The $300 House — a vision highly consistent with the theory of strategic intent.

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People Are Not Cogs

Harvard Business Review

With peers in a few CEO roundtables, I've heard things like: "I plan on hiring 3 biz dev people to get $345K per headcount in revenues." Her book, The New How , discussing collaborative ways to have your whole company strategize, was published in 2010. Every day I go to meetings where language suggests people are cogs.

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Best Leadership Books of 2012

Leading Blog

As Andy Grove said to Gordon Moore, after a year of aimless wandering, “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do? … What Matters Now : How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation by Gary Hamel. Best Leadership Books of 2010.

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Grassroots Leadership through Social Power

Coaching Tip

I don't think it's crazy to ask if your CEO is the next Mubarak," says Gary Hamel, one of business' most eminent theoreticians of management. million hours in delays at the crossing in 2010, concludes an upcoming report by the Center for Automotive Research. People are changing faster than companies and governmental agencies.

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