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An Activist Investor Lands in Your Boardroom — Now What?

Harvard Business Review

More than 200 activist-investor initiatives hit companies in 2013, a seven-fold increase over a decade earlier. Contrary to the adverse experience of some governing boards, activist investors can actually prove to be a leadership asset on the board rather than a disruptive force—providing the boardroom is well-managed and led.

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Bureaucracy is a Bogeyman

Harvard Business Review

It was originally seen as a good thing – a way of allowing organizations to survive changes in leadership, and to resist the capriciousness of powerful individual leaders with vested interests. This post is part of a series of perspectives leading up to the fifth annual Global Drucker Forum in November 2013 in Vienna, Austria.