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APRIL 1, 2023

Admiral McRaven was honored to receive this honor in 2011 when he took charge of the United States Special Operations Command. Yet as Richard Norton Smith reveals in a book full of surprises, Ford was an underrated leader whose tough decisions and personal decency look better with the passage of time.

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Books Norton Leadership Crisis 322

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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Review Strategy Books Positioning 85

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

To start, four researchers at the Rotman School of Management, Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, and the National University of Singapore did a study where they found that , when a liquor store changed from face-to-face to self-service, the market share of difficult-to-pronounce items increased 8.4%.

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Banking Technology Norton Ryan 8

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

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. 1 national infrastructure priority," says Roy Norton, the nation's consul general in Detroit. Sources: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, September 19, 2011 and Forbes, September 26, 2011.

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Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102