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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

Taylor There's no such thing as an average or old-fashioned business, just average or old-fashioned ways to do business. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill. Simply Brilliant : How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways by William C.

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Shutting Down Your Business Gracefully

Harvard Business Review

Blickstein and his finance team had already begun to analyze the options. From the day he had opened his business some 16 years earlier, he’d built a culture that valued transparency, trust, teamwork, and creativity. He wanted out. Making the Decision. Reflections on Scaling Down.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software.