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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

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I also argued in my last post that the CEO has a critical and unique role to play in process improvement, enabling a companys activities to be redesigned across functions and divisions. If the CEO doesnt play this role, process improvement stays comfortably within functional boundaries. He wasnt a process manager.

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Corporate China's Succession Struggles

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Their founders — China's first generation of entrepreneurs — are nearing retirement, so these companies' futures hinges on how effectively the incumbents manage leadership transitions. Consider, for example, the Shenzhen-based Huawei , which has become the world's second largest telecommunications equipment-maker.

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Corporations Need a Better Approach to Public Policy

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telecommunications or food safety or healthcare or aerospace or energy/environment). They might not have a realistic view of governmental/political processes or a feel for balancing public and private interests or understand the inherent contingency of policy efforts. A needed a pproach. A needed a pproach. taxes or trade).

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Leveraging Silicon Valley — From Wherever You Are

Harvard Business Review

In business, volatility used to be more limited to the realms of finance and high tech. Swisscom AG is the major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. To make sure the various headquarter divisions in Bern can catch and use the ideas they “throw,” they’ve developed a give-and-take synching process.

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

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As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole.

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Why the TSA Screening Revolt is Like Poison Ivy

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More on: Managing uncertainty , Risk management , Social media Join the Discussion | More by This Author | Email/Share Previous Google Changes the Playing Field on News Next The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement Never miss a new post from your favorite blogger again with the Harvard Business Review Daily Alert email.