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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did.

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How Arrogance Can Blind Your Transformation Efforts

Harvard Business Review

But the middle managers who contacted George to give a talk balked at his regular speaking fee, instead treating him like "a silicon chip supplier." If you cut through Clayton Christensen's management classic The Innovator's Dilemma , the root cause of failure in the face of disruptive change is the resource-allocation process.

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How to Innovate with an Executive Sponsor

Harvard Business Review

Without the foresight and intervention of senior leadership, the firm will simply concentrate on the opportunities that it was destined to concentrate on. Middle managers with limited resources and set evaluation metrics will simply operate in a predictable fashion.

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The Big Misconceptions Holding Holacracy Back

Harvard Business Review

Still, the essential concepts behind holacracy offer perhaps the best hope of easing top managers’ stranglehold on companies and, by extension, on innovation. An approach like this signals top managers’ deep understanding of distributed management and leadership and establishes them as role models.