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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

We discovered through a rigorous analysis applying 70 years of Nobel-prize winning economics that Mobsters have leadership teams and structures that enable their success despite continuous efforts to disrupt them. Zimmerman , Ph.D., is the co-author of Relentless: The Forensics of Mobsters; Business Practices.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Although many business executives sat through one, or perhaps several, courses in economics while in school, most probably took away little more than the supply and demand graphs to which they were introduced early in their first course. Economists and finance. Many economists since have been hired by the U.S.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Typically, these executives focus on the "what" and the "what if" and not the "how," which of course is the realm of process people. Boards need to ensure that an operations orientation is a key criterion for succession planning in organizations where process improvement is a strategic imperative. Because it isnt their sport.

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