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Stephen Schwarzman’s 25 Rules for Work & Life

Leading Blog

This is where he really learned about finance and discovered his strengths. Today, Blackstone has over $500 billion in assets under management. They offer a free course from the real world to help you improve. Great managers understand how each part works on its own and in relation to all the others. Everyone has dreams.

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Building the next leadership pipeline with short-term executive programs in Top B-schools

HR Digest

Seasoned executives in large corporations may have loads of experience in management, but there are many aspects of business that need to be honed constantly to make it to the top of the ladder. A good way of doing that is through some executive business programs on offer in almost all major business management colleges. Cost Factor.

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Four Situational Leadership® Quotes

The Center For Leadership Studies

It has been in active use for over 50 years, and it was created approximately 50 years after the discipline of organizational behavior and leadership development began. Why have over 15 million managers around the world been active participants in one form of Situational Leadership ® training or another? Of course, it is!

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Stop Comparing Management to Sports

Harvard Business Review

The message for managers is clear: this is the way to outcompete your business rivals; these are the traits that will bring you and your company commercial victory. Good management is not like a competitive sport. Good management is not like a competitive sport. Of course, in business there is rivalry and competition.

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Should You Get an MBA?

Harvard Business Review

Practical leadership and management skills. Management education has changed significantly over the last few decades. Previously it focused on quantitative analysis in areas such as finance and operations, with little emphasis on other aspects of organizational life. How well-established are these courses?

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Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company. For example, in finance courses students learn that profitability and return on assets is the measure of business success.

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What to Do When Your Heart Isn’t in Your Work Anymore

Harvard Business Review

Research by organizational behavior scholars Justin Berg, Jane Dutton, and Amy Wrzesniewski has shown that people can be quite imaginative and effective at reimagining the design of their job in personally meaningful ways. Can you tweak or “renovate” your job? Or do you need to move on?

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