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Your Team Needs an Intervention

Harvard Business Review

Six top executives are midway through a 12-week assignment: Figure out how thousands of employees in their $8 billion company can absorb major changes—three acquisitions, a new global IT system, and a mandate to double revenue in three years—in minimal time. Participants learn genuine collaboration while tackling the task at hand.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

It is also worth noting that in this era, ownership of capital, which permitted acquisition and expansion of means of production (factories and other systems), was the basis for economic well-being. The idea of what executives do changed from a concept of control and authority to a more participative coaching role.