Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

It was there that I first became fascinated with the question “what makes a successful organization.” Perhaps if today’s business leaders took a page from history, their companies would achieve the success created by the enlightened leadership of past corporate giants. And that would be a good thing. * * *. Eich , Ph.D.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Operation: Starting Gun in Moore, OK, Summer 2013 Photo By: Kirk Jackson, Team Rubicon 1. It was a tough pill to swallow, but I clearly understood that my role as a leader from the rear and as a mentor helped contribute to the success of the team. And, how to be prepared -- physically, mentally and emotionally.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

” Such decentralization and lack of structure, however, might have ultimately contributed to company-wide inefficiencies that drove up prices. To understand more about how mergers between tight and loose cultures work, we collected data on over 4,500 international mergers from 32 different countries between 1989 and 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

They reflect a decentralized, de-institutionalized commercial structure that’s now clearly part of the US economy (think of food trucks or Uber). It focuses on bring top US MBAs into the most successful, vibrant companies in Africa for up to 6 months of work and mentoring by senior African executives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Everyone connected with #GivingTuesday is happy to see excitement growing as our next big day –December 3, 2013 – grows near. One of my favorite variations came from Dress for Success, a charitable organization that gives lower-income women professional clothing so they can walk into job interviews and office settings more confidently.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In this environment, we must re-examine the basic assumptions that drove our business success in the past, starting with the most basic question of all: why do we even come together in institutions such as firms? Perhaps a new rationale will be required to drive institutional success in the future.

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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. The energy should go into understanding how things are changing, and deftly tacking toward successful outcomes.

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