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Should You Gamble on Your Company's Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

This motto is vastly more ambitious than the previous one — to educate leaders who "make a decent profit — decently" — and ambition, as Nitin Nohria (now HBS's Dean) and James Champy wrote in The Arc of Ambition , is usually a valuable quality. Such big changes are leaps into the unknown — always.

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Where Have All the Process Owners Gone?

Harvard Business Review

When organizations set about improving the way the way they work, the natural tendency is for them to do it within functions. Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions.

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