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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

CoachStation provides consulting and business advisory, coaching / mentoring and human resource related offerings. This meant from a young age I knew that leading, not just managing and working with people was something I would always pursue. It is how you use the information that the resources, assessments etc.

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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

Harvard Business Review

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. After all, sales and finance were often at odds in organizations, and the conflict hadn’t had a big impact on Barker’s revenues. Doing Just Fine. “The usual. “OK.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Remember Long-Term Capital Management ? LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. An integrated strategy machine is the collection of resources, both technological and human, that act in concert to develop and execute business strategies.

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What Good Is Impact Investing?

Harvard Business Review

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. So here’s the money management industry. There is probably $50 billion of money under management in impact investing at the moment — that’s not going to set the world on fire for the large investment firms.

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Where Have All the Process Owners Gone?

Harvard Business Review

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs. And they succeeded wildly. from 2004 to 2007.

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All Hail the Generalist

Harvard Business Review

In the six decades since Berlin's essay was published, hedgehogs have come to dominate academia, medicine, finance, law, and many other professional domains. In more straightforward language, a man with a hammer is more likely to see nails than one without a hammer. at all, only in some de facto way."

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