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Why Boards Get C-Suite Succession So Wrong

Harvard Business Review

New reports from McKinsey and PwC paint a very bleak picture of C-suite succession practices in today’s corporations. Both consultancies have useful advice to help fix the problem: McKinsey describes how to set up effective integration plans, while PwC describes best practices for CEO transitions. Of course not.

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Should You Get an MBA?

Harvard Business Review

I earned my MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in 2000, and since 2007 I’ve been an Instructor and an internal coach back at the GSB, helping hundreds of students develop their leadership and interpersonal skills. Practical leadership and management skills. Practical leadership and management skills.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Finance Human resources' Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? CHROs are standing at essentially the same crossroads that CFOs were in the 1980’s.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are the management models here. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power. Leadership in these organization demands humility and a willingness to convert trust in numbers into acts of faith. The Autonomous/Autonomy Advisor. Their results should humble those who privilege human agency.