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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

The idea that the "cream will rise to the top" is too often more than offset by the Dunning-Kruger effect; and the real leader's highmindedness will be viewed as a threat to the status quo.

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Courtside Seats to the Best (And Worst) C-Suites

Harvard Business Review

practices by CEOs when it comes to ensuring that the C-Suite is a great team, not just a collection of direct reports. In my experience, the CEOs who create great teams recognize the power of collaboration and ensure that the supporting operating model and processes reinforce it. 2) Reset the rules of the game.

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How to Manage Biased People

Harvard Business Review

Take the recent case of JC Penney, which hired and abruptly fired its CEO, Ron Johnson , after the major changes he instituted took the company from bad to worse. That strategy should aim to meet—in addition to the standard financial and operational performance goals—feasible goals for employees. Execution Managing people Strategy'