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Your Company’s Networks Might Matter More than Its Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Managers, he argued, take a rational approach and seek order and control. Managers provide the continuity needed to execute efficiently and leaders drive the kinetic energy needed to respond dynamically to the needs of the marketplace. Lafley, are both great managers and great leaders. Every organization needs both.

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The Edge: How 10 CEOs Learned to Lead—and the Lessons for Us All

Leading Blog

Your task is now to acquire the skills you need in this new territory before your career or your enterprise falters as a result of your personal limitations. What lies beyond the edge is the opposite, an unfamiliar landscape barely coming into focus.

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The Case for Improving Work for People with Disabilities Goes Way Beyond Compliance

Harvard Business Review

Yet, we find, individuals with disabilities frequently encounter workplace discrimination, bias, exclusion, and career plateaus—meaning their employers lose out on enormous innovation and talent potential. But teaching managers to display inclusive leadership behaviors is just the first step.

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You’re Never Too Experienced to Fake It Till You Learn It

Harvard Business Review

It’s how they develop and grow (just as children do, first imitating their parents, then their peers). And that’s precisely what gets us in trouble as we hit career transitions that call for new and different ways of leading. ” At a loss for what to do, Clara decided to emulate people she saw as effective leaders. .

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career. Create one integrated workforce strategy.

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At Multinationals, Country CEOs Should Be Both Local and Global

Harvard Business Review

Sealed Air China has been successful not only because its senior managers understand the local market, but also because they are knowledgeable about the parent company's value proposition and technical strengths. That long stint earned him the trust of the global CEO, Bill Hickey, and his top management team.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. Crucially, the operating model also must define ways of working and behaviors that actually bring your company’s strategy to life.