Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

A S a McKinsey & Company article stated in late March 2020: “What leaders need during a crisis is not a predefined response plan but behaviors and mindsets that will prevent them from overreacting to yesterday’s developments and help them look ahead.”. A former businesswoman, she is a thought leader in blended learning methodologies.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 30, 2023

And that's exactly what author and London Business School professor Herminia Ibarra has done with her 2015 global bestseller, Act Like A Leader, Think Like A Leader. Reach out to three people in your company you always wanted to get to know and ask them for lunch or coffee. What is even better than a really good book about leadership?

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Groupthink How To Learning-by-Doing Books 65

Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2014

Make employees feel more included at work, says Catalyst’s new global report, Inclusive Leadership: The View From Six Countries , which surveyed over 1,500 employees from Australia, China (Shanghai), Germany, India, Mexico and the United States. Inclusive leaders are humble. Related articles. Catalyst Take on Women Leaders in 2013.

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Team Groupthink Innovation Report 123

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In prior blog posts, we have described how Western multinationals such as Xerox and GE are embracing polycentric innovation by sourcing more R&D capabilities from emerging markets such as India and China and integrating them into a synergistic global innovation network. Decentralize and empower global R&D units. and the U.K.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

In his research, West found that companies today behave more like whales and machines. The good news is that there's no reason companies can't be more like communities. After all, companies are social networks too. Conformity creates groupthink, stifling innovation and organizational resilience. Communities or machines?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

boards of directors should engage with their companies'' shareholders. companies have started demanding direct access to non-management board members in order to assess the quality of board stewardship. I recently participated in a stimulating roundtable discussion on how U.S. In recent years, institutional shareholders in U.S.

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Groupthink Banking CEO Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Several years ago, a large, global company asked me to help improve their employee engagement. But inclusiveness is about more than gender, racial or cultural diversity. This doesn’t mean groupthink. By understanding what was working, we could harness and replicate these factors across the greater organization.

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