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Don’t Coach Integrity Violations – Fire Them!

Marshall Goldsmith

A very wise leader, Alan Mulally, the former CEO of Ford and Fortune’s #3 greatest leader in the world 2013, once told me, “The key to your success is having great customers. You probably won’t be surprised to learn that not all executive coaching engagements are successful.

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New Year. New Leader.

Lead Change Blog

Here they are: Daniel Pink – In 2015, London-based Thinkers 50 named him, alongside Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world. Friedman is an award-winning social psychologist who specializes in human motivation and has consulted for some of the world’s most successful organizations.

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The U.S. Economy Is Doing Only Half Its Job

Harvard Business Review

Unfortunately, the success of big firms in the U.S. Along with Michael Porter and our colleagues at Harvard Business School, I have been researching the competitiveness of the U.S. As of 2013, median income was at levels first attained 24 years earlier, in 1989. is only half the story of the nation’s economy.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 3/18/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results Gary Keller with Jay Papasan The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Third Edition Warren Buffett; Edited by Lawrence A. Cunningham Judgment On the [.].

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A 40-Year Debate Over Corporate Strategy Gets Revived by Elon Musk and Warren Buffett

Harvard Business Review

Michael Porter’s 1979 HBR article on the five forces that shape strategy offered companies a framework for thinking through those positions, and his 1996 article “What Is Strategy? . “The best competitors, the most successful ones, know how to keep moving and always stay on the cutting edge.”

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Is It Better to Be Strategic or Opportunistic?

Harvard Business Review

Start with Michael Porter. They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s. They both have something useful to say. Okay – what’s the thesis? .

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