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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2023

Leading Blog

Liveris, who was recently chosen to lead the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Organizing Committee and is former Chairman and CEO of The Dow Chemical Company, presents a variety of powerful tools that will enable you to tackle any problem quickly and responsively, with an eye to creating a more equitable, sustainable future. Middle manager."

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How Royal DSM Is Improving Its Geographic and Gender Diversity

Harvard Business Review

. “I’m absolutely convinced that the evolving balance of the top management team is a key factor in our success and our ability to change,” Feike Sijbesma, the 57-year-old CEO of Royal DSM, the $8 billion, global company active in health, nutrition and materials science, told me.

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75% of Cross-Functional Teams Are Dysfunctional

Harvard Business Review

As one middle manager told me, “No one was willing to go to management and say, ‘Let’s redeploy everyone, including myself, and do something else because this project isn’t working.'” At IBM, mid-level managers also serve as the first line of defense for cross-functional escalation issues.

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