Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

The top floor of the HQ building is often reserved for such leaders, including the CEO and his or her lieutenants, and this is where decisions are made and disseminated, funds are allocated, and promotions are determined. The time has come for us to rethink this concentration of leadership.

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Agility Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. CEOs are on the hunt to understand who has done what, and who has succeeded. Change the dialogue in the senior leadership team to focus on the end-to-end customer experience.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The appointment of Mary Barra as CEO-to-be of General Motors is a signal to car-lovers everywhere that the company is serious about its products and vehicle innovation. It’s good for America for GM to have a CEO who is a car and truck person and who also happens to be a woman. It is now official. Girls like cars.

Engineering 8

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

David Kenny, the new head of IBM’s Watson, defines that business as “AI (artificial intelligence) as a service,” a central part of the data analytics market that IBM CEO Virginia Rometty says is a $2 trillion opportunity. One might even say that an increasing advantage of the U.S.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

When we launched the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation last year, we aimed to enlist the most progressive practitioners and thinkers in the collective effort of reinventing what we call "the technology of human accomplishment." Syndicating the Work of Leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Investor-owned hospitals rarely have more than three or four layers of supervision between the nurse that touches patients and the CEO. However, doing this with blanket eliminations of layers carries a risk: inadvertently pruning away the next generation of leadership talent. In some larger nonprofit hospitals, there may be six.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

A Leader’s Insights In “ Joy, Inc – How We Built a Workplace People Love ”, Richard Sheridan, cofounder and CEO of software design firm Menlo Innovations, delineates the practical steps he has taken to create and maintain a corporate culture that makes people “excited to come to work every day.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Patch Woes The Story Behind Why AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fired An Employee In Front Of 1,000 Coworkers Business Insider For a few days last August, it was one of the most talked-about business stories in America: Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL, fired someone abruptly during a meeting. A recording of the incident went viral.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Yet, after he stepped down from his CEO role and the company underwent several management transitions, Dell started to stall out. The company has made one of the largest technology acquisitions in history (EMC). As Michael told us, “I resonate strongly with the themes of the founder’s mentality.”

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Energy Industry Bureaucracy Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Picking the right approach to leadership gets the most attention, but execution may be just as big a problem. That’s why CEOs of many organizations established executive teams – a group of senior leaders who work together to define goals and ensure everyone keeps them in mind.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

Based on our experience in India and with companies such as those named above, we think that GM’s sales failure in India holds five lessons for American CEOs across many sectors. #1 1 — Consistent Leadership Over Time Matters in This Market. GM will keep its technology center in Bangalore.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

Reduce Bureaucracy 3. Overhaul Technology 5. To address the technology gap at Nasdaq, Greifeld went outside to buy winners—smart acquisitions. Business leaders should always cultivate an attentive disposition toward outsiders, especially in industries impacted by technology. Get the Right People on Board 2.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

That turns out to be a powerful approach to leadership in a world of expanding complexity, immense challenges and intense change. As Vineet Nayar, CEO of the $3.5 billion global IT services firm, HCL Technologies, puts it: "The CEO should be the Chief Question Asker, not the final provider of answers."

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Organization Open-book Bureaucracy CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The Healthy Heart program seeks to bring pacemaker technology to hundreds of thousands of Indians who desperately need it. No new technology was involved here — and that's the point. The effort also positions Medtronic to dramatically expand in those markets as it develops new technologies that lower costs. (

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

But it is also a complex market, with a reputation for corruption, uncertainty, and bureaucracy. No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up) — your world is awash with data.

Books 8

Books Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. There is also a "sweat the small stuff" day, once a quarter, for getting on top of the creeping bureaucracy and niggling problems that accumulate over time. But innovation is an elusive beast.

Company 8

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Every CEO or leader knows that strategy design, coupled with excellence in the implementation of that strategy, is central to an organization’s sustainable growth and prosperity. Practices can change, business models are disrupted, and technology evolves, but principles do not change.

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