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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

L EADERSHIP is a broad term, and it applies to those who you might not have a positive perception of — including mobsters. Relentless teaches these time-honored principles using crime syndicates as case studies. Lawful leaders should seek to build a culture that differentiates their organization from others. * * * Jerold L.

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The Center for Leadership Studies Releases Situational Conversations™

The Center For Leadership Studies

Situational Conversations offers a flexible design that includes accessibility compliance, impactful paced lessons, multifaceted collaboration, reflection, discussion and application activities, as well as video case studies that reflect today’s modern and dynamic workforce. 1 Solomon L. Harvard Business Review.

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Case Study: The Gentleman's 3

Harvard Business Review

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. It is based on the HBS Case Study "Compensation and Performance Evaluation at Arrow Electronics" (case no. 800290), by Brian J. Hall and Carleen Madigan.

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Case Study: When to Drop an Unprofitable Customer

Harvard Business Review

Editor's Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. These deductions, which totaled 12% of sales, had previously been collapsed into a single line item in the P&L for each customer. He looked at Jane.

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Case Study: Time for a Unified Campaign?

Harvard Business Review

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. You're responsible for your own P&L, just like all the other hotel managers, and that includes promotional spending of any kind. Welcome, welcome."

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Navigating an Office Without Formal Processes

Harvard Business Review

Case Study #1: Be selective with the changes you’re advocating. Case Study #2: Use a new process to build trust. I was used to working closely with P&Ls at my previous job so I could stay on top of the department’s revenue and profitability goals,” Melton explains.

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Can We Quantify the Value of Connected Devices?

Harvard Business Review

P&G didn’t go into its early connected device initiatives with a “let’s try this out and see what it gets us” mindset. And this addresses the commercial value creation question – P&G’s mindset was to create operational efficiencies that would contribute to healthy EBITDA margins.