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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ).

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What I Learned About Coaching After Losing the Ability to Speak

Harvard Business Review

But I still loved my work and needed to stay active, and my clients were open to trying a new approach, so I began managing my coaching relationships exclusively through written dialogue in instant messages, emails, and other electronic documents. We make allowances for people in informal written interaction. Manage confidentiality.

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10 Principles For Developing Strategic Leaders

Tanveer Naseer

Be honest and open about information Transparency fosters conversation about the meaning of information and the improvement of everyday practices. Strategic leaders know that the real power in information comes not from hoarding it, but from using it to find and create new opportunities for growth.