LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

When I was a CEO, I managed to squirrel away a “rainy day” fund for nasty business blips. When business goes sour, whether short or long-term, the organization’s most senior people need to step up and offer innovative solutions to the issues hammering the top and bottom-line. At best, they are managers.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Those that thrive, go a step further; they worship innovation and breathe healthy cultures. He refused to be blocked by the brick wall that separates management from union in most companies. In fact, it was Ronnie who took a sledge hammer to that wall and turned it into rubble. Leaders ought to treat them as such.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

Several years ago, a friend had come to me with her dream: She wanted to start a magazine. The magazine got off to a great start: it was written up in the New York Times , circulation after a few months reached 100,000. I wasn't going to do this to our business partner and friend with her magazine dream.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Among the problems: Agassi "effectively committed to a business model before he even settled on a name" and didn''t bother to hire people with management or automotive experience. might similarly manage a delicate dance with the oceans. According to many, he also packed an unhealthy amount of hubris.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. ” In his family’s living room, his proud parents give him his “grandpappy’s” giant hammer.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. The author’s Harvard Business Review articles are among the most highly read in the magazine’s history. Because innovation requires it. MISTAKE #5: Punishing ‘good failures.’

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