You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

Successful leadership ~ The Story of a Man → May 31, 2010 · 4:14 am ↓ Jump to Comments Getting Culture Right Earlier last week, I viewed a video, a parody actually, called Office Space: Meeting The Bobs. While it is a clever film, it highlights very disturbing things that go on in some organizations. I have seen them.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Photo: Barbara Leatham In 2018, Brian Bugge, a sailor in the US Navy and an experienced diver, entered the water off Hawaii on a technical training course. In diving, we recognise we’re never going to get to zero risk because we’re operating in an inherently hazardous environment,” he says.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

In the decades that followed Kodak established a dominant position in the lucrative film business, with its "you push a button, we do the rest" slogan demonstrating its commitment to making photography accessible to the masses. Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

While it's part of the normal course for organizations, disbanding well-functioning teams is actually a value-destroying activity, eradicating the "team capital" built and stored in the team. I would project that by 2020, 30% of work will be performed by permanently employed, self-managed clusters.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Now of course we are all suffering from the same affliction. The creative industry operates largely by holding ‘creative’ people ransom to their own self-image, precarious sense of self-worth, and fragile – if occasionally out of control ego. Well of course not. Can’t be done. It became a contest. Winner gets to keep his job.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Think of Kodak, which in the 1990s was the apparently unassailable leader in its market, with 80% market share in its core film business. After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Barely Opera was the result of a project that was part of a course at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (“d.school”). As part of the course, two students worked with SFO to help the Opera think about how to best use a new 299-seat facility that would open in early 2016.

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