Remove Case Study Remove Construction Remove Finance Remove Leadership
article thumbnail

Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

We discovered through a rigorous analysis applying 70 years of Nobel-prize winning economics that Mobsters have leadership teams and structures that enable their success despite continuous efforts to disrupt them. Relentless offers five transformative leadership lessons that leadership training programs must incorporate and promote.

P&L 329
article thumbnail

Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

Great Leadership By Dan

Shamis: One of the most gratifying experiences in writing a leadership book is the introspection youallow yourself in the process. As I wrote Building Blocks — Case Studies of a Serial Entrepreneur , I realized that over the years, I toiled with many of my failures, but I never analyzed the variables of the successes.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years.

article thumbnail

Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

Organizations that move into developing nations to help small technical businesses, must help those businesses manage their finances. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans.

Books 13
article thumbnail

Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Take over responsibility and leadership. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Take over responsibility and leadership. Posting Guidelines We hope the conversations that take place on HBR.org will be energetic, constructive, free-wheeling, and provocative.

CIO 15
article thumbnail

How to Negotiate Nicely Without Being a Pushover

Harvard Business Review

“Be mindful about what draws other people out in a constructive way,” says Wheeler. You may already know that the other side is under pressure because of supply-chain issues, or new leadership. Case study #1: Pausing to inquire. ” Case study #2: The power of the personal.

article thumbnail

The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. Thats what Chinas Hi-Tech Fair is doing. Its another thing to see the green focus up close.

NGO 14