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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. But the downstream impact of making such a choice in a moment of stress or carelessness can be devastating. In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Because innovation requires it.

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How We Learned (Almost) Everything That’s Wrong with U.S. Census Data

Harvard Business Review

Our field research showed that some traditional physical stores were rapidly blending the best of physical, web, and mobile to serve their customers, while others were simply being hammered by the growth of e-commerce. We thought getting data would be pretty easy. The Census Bureau has reports galore on e-commerce, broken down by industry.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

They also stressed organizational learning (meaning, capturing the methods of Lean so that other parts of the organizations could adopt them). In addition to laying out an approach for making one-time improvements, Reengineering's high priest (the late Michael Hammer) had advice for organizations wanting to sustain improvement.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Back in the ‘60s, people developed the capital asset pricing model [CAPM] as a way to do that. Shiller hammered away on this point in the ‘80s, and in fact Fama also published some of the same observations. Lars is famous for that.

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