Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill.

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Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan 150

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. The result can be a toxic culture where teamwork and trust erode, where no one is the custodian of values.

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CEO IPO Energy COO 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

The client, which constituted some 80 percent of Home Run’s billings, advised Home Run that its 2016 billings were likely to fall sharply. Blickstein and his finance team had already begun to analyze the options. By the end of January 2016, all of his clients had moved on and, happily, no bridges had been burned.

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Media Hammer Software Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. TEO Ming Kian , Director at Temasek and Chairman at Vertex Holdings.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. Encouraging your team to set regular, reasonable hours supports a healthy lifestyle, which in turn supports better teamwork.

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Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

At the start of 2016 Google announced that it had discovered the secret ingredients for the perfect team. For instance, we worked with a finance team charged with rolling out a novel business reporting product for transforming the culture of a staid government agency. 100% of team members were considered pragmatic.

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Skills Team Cooper Emotional Intelligence 8