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What Africa’s Leaders Have Learned About Facing Huge Challenges

Harvard Business Review

When Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was reelected as president of Liberia, she faced unemployment, health crises, social unrest, and feeble infrastructure on one side, and a historically corrupt bureaucracy, few resources, and a mandate for immediate results on the other. It’s essential to decide what to do and what not to do.

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The Former Head of the CIA on Managing the Hunt for Bin Laden

Harvard Business Review

Three prior CIA directors, and countless senior officials, operations officers, analysts, technical experts, and support teams carried out this campaign, developing important pieces of intelligence along the way. Reorienting priorities in a large government bureaucracy is hard enough. The trail had gone cold.