Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I was struck not only by their disciplined approach but also by their freedom to discover, develop and design within broad operating parameters—conditions I did not typically associate with large, for-profit corporations. It was there that I first became fascinated with the question “what makes a successful organization.” Eich , Ph.D.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

According to Amazon’s leadership principles, leaders are instructed to “ hire and develop the best ” and “insist on the highest standards.” ” Such decentralization and lack of structure, however, might have ultimately contributed to company-wide inefficiencies that drove up prices.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Across all kinds of platforms, individuals from nonprofit development staff to celebrities to CEOs helped spread this compelling idea. There is not a development team or nonprofit board in the world that wouldn’t perk up at that number. GivingTuesday developed case studies and metrics to capture what happened in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Not by gathering waves of data and solving successive equations. Moreover, when we look around at the companies who are doing well, it can be hard to see the rhyme or reason of the decisions that led to that success. So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Keep your gaze on the customers.

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