Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

When your team identifies a product concept that is worth pursuing, leadership becomes the championing of execution over the touting of an idea. A business has to create value, usually measured in the form of profit, and if you can't lead a team to do that more often than not, you're not likely to get many chances to stand in the center ring.

Productivity 150

Productivity Products Succession Team 150

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Leadership would shape the conversation to ensure proposals were strategically on-point. Their expectation was to spend about a day a week for the next six months on the identification, design, and testing of a business model innovation. ’ It helped me think about the NYPL system and where my career could go here.”

Library 8

Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. But if I had to focus on a short list for young business leaders, I'd choose the 11 below. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers. That's a tough question.

Books 22

Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. But if I had to focus on a short list for young business leaders, I'd choose the 11 below. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers. That's a tough question.

Books 17

Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Imagine you’re the guy who was running the Walkman business at Sony a decade ago. Your career depended on that business going forward, and the numbers that mattered had to do with the performance of that business, not with Sony as a whole. What makes one business model more attractive than another?

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50