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Laying Groundwork: How Do Leaders Create Positive Company Culture?

CO2

Corporate Culture ‘The single greatest tool in any leader’s toolkit is culture,” Mike Harper, former chairman and CEO of ConAgra, explained to me during an interview at his home. Innovation is as good a way as any to build effective cultures. Are you and your organization working differently than others? If so, how?

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Laying Groundwork: How Do Leaders Create Positive Company Culture?

CO2

‘The single greatest tool in any leader’s toolkit is culture,” Mike Harper, former chairman and CEO of ConAgra, explained to me during an interview at his home. Consider for a moment the four methods of innovation that Gary Hamel identified: Process Innovation (Make it better). Strategy/Management (Sell different).

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Introducing the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The Harvard Business Review 's mission is to improve the practice of management and its impact on a changing world. Led by Gary Hamel and supported by McKinsey & Company (along with a handful of like-minded organizations), the MIX is a web-based open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century.

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Can Charisma Be Taught?

Harvard Business Review

Her story is not only an inspiring one of adapting self-help narratives and neuroscience to "trick" her own mind; it’s also a tale couched in almost a century of management thinking about who can and can''t be a leader. In Hamel''s view, every company should be like the internet: decentralized, non-bureaucratic, flexible, and empowering.

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What do Great Leaders Have in Common?

CO2

Challenge the process David Whyte, the poet and philosopher, says that the CEO is the Chief Conversation Officer. The CEO must initiate and participate in the conversations that everyone else is afraid to have (or might not have even considered). These conversations often start with tough questions. What is our organization bad at?

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What do Great Leaders Have in Common?

CO2

Challenge the process David Whyte, the poet and philosopher, says that the CEO is the Chief Conversation Officer. The CEO must initiate and participate in the conversations that everyone else is afraid to have (or might not have even considered). These conversations often start with tough questions. What is our organization bad at?

Hamel 78
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What Great Leaders Have in Common

CO2

David Whyte, the poet and philosopher, says that the CEO is the Chief Conversation Officer. The CEO must initiate and participate in the conversations that everyone else is afraid to have (or might not have even considered). Challenge the process. These conversations often start with tough questions. What is our organization bad at?

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