Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

There is a sea change going on in African leadership. Great leadership rarely is. ” Leadership usually is. The first job of leadership is to focus attention. In order to get things done, Johnson-Sirleaf needed to influence the behavior of thousands of civil servants in her sprawling government bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy GDP Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

In this massive piece, Nicholas Carlson analyzes Armstrong''s rise from his days as the owner of a strawberry business, uncovering a leadership trajectory that culminated in a proxy war with an activist investor and a final realization that his baby — local-news and listings provider Patch — needed to be trimmed, or else.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Bond Entrepreneur Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

The Bin Laden operation was a seminal moment in the campaign to decimate Al Qaeda’s leadership. Reorienting priorities in a large government bureaucracy is hard enough. Had we failed, at least we would have been able to move closer to the objective so that the next leadership team at CIA could finish the job.

Management 8

Management Operations Planning Politics 8