Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Management scholars Jay Conger and Rabindra Kanungo introduced a framework for charismatic leadership, which I use to reflect on the case studies of Alexander the Great and General Charles de Gaulle. Such behaviors stand in sharp contrast to the entitlement behaviors we can witness in some of today’s business and political leaders.

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Charisma Bond Leadership Brand 144

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

After many years of spectacular economic growth and of what seemed — on the surface at least — like remarkable cohesion within China’s political elite, the past two years have involved what to many analysts has been an astonishing amount of turmoil at the highest levels of the Chinese political establishment.

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Politics GDP Sharpe Incentives 8

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. tool knife from the rig on my body armor and let the pristinely sharp blade slice effortlessly through the tape and label—while being ever so careful to avoid harming whatever wonders lay inside. I drew my standard-issue Gerber?tool

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Emotional Intelligence Participative Short-term Letter 150

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

Tasking employees to keep executive egos in check is no longer practical or politically correct, but the need for such personal prompting and reminders undeniably remains. When I know I can't trust myself to be as sharp as I'd like, I need my devices to "step up" and make a difference. Why not have your smartphone do it ?

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Self-aware Management Sharpe Politics 15

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Being sharp means being succinct. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Additionally know what you have to trade. Rehearse your pitch. Mine your backyard.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The contrast is sharp and it is no accident. Their polite and respectful attitude toward the police, even as they defied and embarrassed the regime, helped win officers over to their cause. Otpor, on the other hand, created a movement that cascaded through the world. Successful movements do things that failed ones don’t.

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Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

General Leadership

APRIL 16, 2014

Words have derailed political campaigns, ruined marriages, started wars, and destroyed businesses. In a fascinating study of 60 top management teams who were engaged in an annual strategic planning, problem solving, and budget setting summit, researchers set out to determine what it was that made some teams perform better than others.

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Succession Sharpe Positioning Strategic Planning 414

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

and European elections, to management of the Syrian War, it’s clear that relations between the West and Russia have become increasingly hostile. For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian Then, firms need to think through the types of political and macroeconomic events (e.g.

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Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Or perhaps the company has gone through a re-structuring and eliminated your job — and you''ve been told that none of the managers you''ve worked with over the years have a position for you on their team. The place was rife with organizational politics." "My Failure Managing yourself'

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Sharpe Cooper Delegation Long-term 10

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Those who place the care and regard of others above advancing their personal, positional, professional or political agendas will garner trust, respect and influence. “Those who place the care and regard of others above advancing their personal, positional, professional or political agendas will garner trust, respect and influence.”

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Blog Gordon Learning-by-Doing Open-book 419

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Expert Political Judgment , by Philip Tetlock. Tetlock has studied how poor our forecasts are when it comes to making predictions in the domain of economics and politics. Tetlock is a must-read if you rely on any form of social-economic-political prediction in your work. The Halo Effect , by Phil Rosenzweig.

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Senge Goleman Emotional Intelligence Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Or perhaps the company has gone through a re-structuring and eliminated your job — and you’ve been told that none of the managers you’ve worked with over the years have a position for you on their team. ” “The place was rife with organizational politics.” Failure Managing yourself'

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Sharpe Cooper Delegation Career 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Every few hundred years throughout Western history, a sharp transformation has occurred,” Peter Drucker observed in a 1992 e ssay for Harvard Business Review. “In In a matter of decades, society altogether rearranges itself – its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its arts, its key institutions.

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Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

But in sharp contrast to the situation in Brazil, productivity has been rising faster than wages in the U.S. What they have in common is that their solutions are at least as much political as economic. As in, Isn’t this the exact opposite of what a chart of productivity and wages would show in the U.S.? Sure enough, it more or less is.

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GDP Disruptive Innovation Sharpe Productivity 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

These logistics took a sharp new turn last week when the Obama administration decided to delay enforcing mandatory employer and insurer employment requirements until 2015. So the law has hit a delay, political heat is rising, businesses are in the middle, and many people are still just plain confused about what they have to do.

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Health Care Parcell Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

For example, this study examining the rivalry between sales and marketing showed that conflicts between managers from these historically warring functions were not driven by interpersonal issues. Office Politics. How to Manage a Toxic Employee. You and Your Team Series. Make Your Enemies Your Allies. Why We Fight at Work.

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How To Sharpe Operations Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Year-on-year price increases for existing therapies have allowed the industry to maintain profitability, but those short-term fixes have come at a heavy cost: decreased public satisfaction with the industry and increased political scrutiny. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

But let''s say you are a general manager or director/VP level of a business unit or brand within a corporation. Your options for funding a corporate idea are very narrow — basically, you have to go through the often bureaucratic and political process of getting a budget from the managers above you.

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Company Budgeting Entrepreneur Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The answer is the sharp and unexpected rise of existential risk. Every half century or so, the risk assumptions underlying our economic, social and political foundations change dramatically. A former assistant managing editor for Business Week , he is professor of Innovation and Design at Parsons The New School for Design.

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Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

According to a report from the Milken Institute, direct medical costs combined with ill health-induced absenteeism and "presenteeism" — which is when employees manage to show up for work but are less productive — costs American businesses more than $1.3 trillion per year. That's right, trillion!

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Absenteeism Presenteeism Health Care Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

While this set of data is unmanageable enough, things become that much more complicated when the "political gets really personal." But are managers still making the tough calls about terminating people? Also among the new normal is the fact that 70% of children live in a household where both parents are employed. BONUS BITS: Cheers.

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Fashion Performance Review Sharpe Budgeting 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

All the rest of this stuff is just politics and money." Now both my sons are doing the tough balancing act, but their priorities are keeping their leadership skills sharp – leading family and companies. " From a dear friend and colleague: "Family is the only thing that matters. link] Bert Decker Great post Mike.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 387

Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 10, 2020

That’s why we must draw a sharp distinction between right and wrong and be consistent in promoting those principles and applying deterrents. The fact is that punishments are reactive — administered after an offense is committed. Instead, we should promote strength of character , solid personal values, and personal responsibility all the time.

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Merchandising Sharpe Learning-by-Doing Commitment 118

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

But despite perceptions of entrenched corruption, economic turbulence, and political risk, many big firms have invested and maintained a presence in the country. Russia has always been seen as a challenging place to do business, especially among Western multinationals.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

A seasoned CFO with a sharp mind and an abrasive style, Arthur had lost his job over a disagreement with his company’s new CEO. “I hadn’t realized how much I cared, how much work mattered to me, until then,” he explained, sharing a feeling I have heard many a manager describe. No, it’s not a muse!

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Long-term Loyalty Uncertainty Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2018

I think each would agree that leading in the intelligence community is a daily exercise in crisis management, whether at the helm of CIA with its global analytic and operational responsibilities, or at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence with its oversight responsibilities for the entire intelligence community.

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Objective Safe Harbor Policies Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

In this era of continuous digital transformation, every manager can benefit from learning a few best practices from the boutique industry of venture capital. Politics dominates the psyches of employees, who have to carefully calculate whether to call out a problem, discuss it in private, or ignore it entirely. Then suddenly.”

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Execution Venture Capitalist Software CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Cartoonists shift their gaze from politics to the budget circus and TV channels gather all the “experts” to pontificate. It is about making timely sharp turns, planned and executed with reason. Will doors open further to foreign investment or competition? This year was no different. His views on strategy were final.

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Budgeting Cost Globalization Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Corporate procurement processes are opaque, secretive, and can be influenced by political pull as well as pure performance. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Manage the arduously long sales cycle. Taking this path isn’t a cake walk, however. Innovate and invest, even when it hurts.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We then gave a 90-minute workshop, called “Bias Interrupters for Managers,” that differs from most bias trainings in three ways. Next, it describes the most common scenarios and asks people to come up with low-key ways to interrupt bias that don’t require expending too much political capital.

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Venture Capitalist Workshop Diversity Long-term 8

Management Craft

OCTOBER 4, 2011

You won’t get away wearing ripped jeans to a client meeting because that’s your personal style, and you must learn to be politically sensitive and diplomatic even if someone has wronged you. . More often than not, compensation is about business realities, HR mandates, and office politics – not performance. .

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Ethics Sharpe Self-aware Career 85

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

As households have had no chance to recover since 2009, this "may in turn lead to political or inter-ethnic clashes.". Google Knows You're About to Quit (Talent Management). MANAGEMENT LESSONS FROM COOKIE MONSTER. The lesson for managers: every productive organization requires a careful ratio of both. CREEPY OR COOL?

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Crisis Sharpe Letter Sports 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

As households have had no chance to recover since 2009, this "may in turn lead to political or inter-ethnic clashes.". Google Knows You're About to Quit (Talent Management). MANAGEMENT LESSONS FROM COOKIE MONSTER. The lesson for managers: every productive organization requires a careful ratio of both. CREEPY OR COOL?

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Crisis Sharpe Letter Sports 9

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led. A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L. With the proven system in this book, entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders will learn how to tap into surprising and valuable ideas on demand and fill the creative pipeline with breakthrough ideas.

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 368

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The crisis in Venezuela has been escalating over the last few years as product shortages, social unrest, and political clashes have grown more severe. Our company, Frontier Strategy Group, recently polled 20 Latin America general managers about Venezuela’s contributions to their regional revenues. Exodus of Multinationals.

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Sharpe Price Politics Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

With political sentiments running hot in the United States, and a news cycle that seems to have gone into hyperdrive, it’s not as unusual as it once was for partisan discussions to flare up at work. You don’t want acrimonious political debates distracting your staff from the task at hand.

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Politics Sharpe Media Diversity 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. Why does all this matter for the purposes of anger management? A final way of helping with both anger and its management is to reduce the scope of what we attempt in terms of global integration or coordination.

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Globalization Education Policies Survey 8