Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Leading in the 21st century: An interview with Ford’s Alan Mulally | McKinsey & Company. Leon Festinger, the social psychologist that coined the term “ cognitive dissonance ” in 1957, makes this observation. Be aware in 2014 by @TomAsacker. The One Leadership Responsibility You Must Accept by @Starbucker. link] by @tshnall.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Lou Gerstner captured the importance of culture as he reflected on his experience in transforming, or as he would say, “trying” to transform IBM from a hardware company to software consulting company. “I came to see, in my time at IBM that culture isn’t just one aspect of the game – it is the game.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Psychologist Leon Festinger, working in the mid-1950''s, began the formal study of how we come to feel what we feel in what is known as cognitive dissonance research. Festinger exposed volunteer subjects to two experimental conditions in his studies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

While once the corner office was almost invariably inherited by an insider, now it is more common to see companies reaching for "stars" who might perform miracles, or at least give the stock price a boost. In a similar vein, studies by Boris Groysberg find that high performers in one company often can't work their same magic in another.

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