Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2014

we are contending with wave after wave of jobs moving overseas, markets that whip up and down, and energy prices rising at an unprecedented rate. In the U.S., As business leaders, we are troubled by the regular announcements of once-proud companies being sold, broken up, or downsized.

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Chief Executive Officer Learning-by-Doing Charisma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

You don’t have to be “the awesome-est person in the room” or make sure “everyone is blown away by your charisma.” This won’t translate directly into influence, of course, but it does “make it more likely that others will at least hear you out.” ” Listen before you try to persuade.

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Influence How To Case Study Learning-by-Doing 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. The real story behind IBM's success is the course Palmisano set for 21st century global enterprises. Never confuse charisma with leadership.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

But in the present, our empathy for criminals is rarely piqued; unless, of course, we're watching The Wire or reading about 18th century pirates (and imagining Johnny Depp). That these guys who had run drug businesses had all these entrepreneurial characteristics like scrappiness, charisma, and real skills in leadership and management."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

As you take some time to reflect, relax, and renew before the year to come, we offer you our most popular multimedia content from the year that was: podcasts, videos, slideshows, and infographics that we hope help you chart a successful course in 2012. We talked with HBS professor Tom DeLong about the anxieties of top performers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Of course, there's a broader question behind the comings and goings at Google: Has the most exciting startup of the last two decades become just another big company, and if that's the case, how can any big company hope to hold on to its top talent? But it takes tremendous willpower not to compromise.".

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Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 28, 2013

Your assumptions may be wrong about the market, customers and the product need. A big company may be working on solving the exact same problem and could crush you to pieces (not literally, of course). Markets may move making your product or solution irrelevant. You may not know how to price your product in international markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

In sales, where charisma and extroversion can be advantages, some people attribute success more to inborn personality traits than to skills that can be coached or taught. training and coaching programs focused on markets, products, customers, and sales processes), and retaining good salespeople and managers at every career stage (e.g.

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Charisma Strategy Process Efficiency 9

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 4, 2018

And hiring or holding onto the wrong CEOs costs shareholders an estimated $112 billion in lost market value every year. Successful CEOs have a larger-than-life personality with exceptional charisma and confidence. CEOs, of course, work very hard, but so do others in a wide range of jobs. CEOs work harder than the rest of us.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

Of course, in business management, we all learned the double-edged sword quality of management by celebrity. GE is known for its diversity and ability to function competitively in many markets. Of course, both systems work. Many-market organization. Single market. Star power is real. GE and HCL. So which works?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

And we are often happy to review these start-up plans — which include the typical elements such as a product description, competitive analysis, estimate of market size, and projected financials. At Echoing Green we've learned that more important than charisma is what we call resource magnetism. Has it been tried this way before?

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

They take courses on public speaking, they learn how to stand out in group settings, they search out mentors and leadership coaches who help them engage, connect and influence others. The pertinent point is that charisma is but one factor contributing to presence. Branding Human Resources Leadership Marketing Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Most people think charisma is as vital to leadership as it is to rock stars or TV presenters and, unfortunately, they are right. In the era of multimedia politics, leadership is commonly downgraded to just another form of entertainment and charisma is indispensable for keeping the audience engaged.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Of course, one must first emerge in order to be effective. It didn’t matter that the Brexiteers’ promises to limit immigration, somehow retain access to the common market, reduce crime, improve the public healthcare system, and stick it to the French and Germans were implausible.

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