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5 Must-Read Books For Business Leaders For Summer 2013

Eric Jacobson

It covers basic management, managing staff changes, managing projects, strategic thinking, hiring, delegating, and communication -- and lot''s more. In his book, he explains that to be successful you need to know more than your industry and just the basic concepts of leadership, management and operations. His advice?

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The IT Project That Brought a Bank to Its Knees

Harvard Business Review

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. This shortfall resulted in its parent, Co-operative Group, ceding control of the bank to bondholders, including U.S. The factors contributing to the failure cited in the report are ones that we all too frequently have encountered when we have reviewed challenged or failed projects.

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How to Stop Micromanaging Your Team

Harvard Business Review

“A good manager trains and delegates,” says Dillon, and you can’t do that if you’re taking on everything—regardless of how important the task is—yourself. “Do a test run on a project that is a bit less urgent and give your team full accountability and see how it goes,” Chatman says.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. Meanwhile, trustees control universities’ sometimes-giant endowments, and most often delegate this control to asset managers who treat the endowments as pools of money with the sole purpose of creating more money. They’re quite good at it, on the whole.