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Management Styles

Strategy Driven

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. In this era, business started embracing formal planning.

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The Big Picture of Business – Corporate Cultures Reflect Business Progress and Growth.

Strategy Driven

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. In this era, business started embracing formal planning.

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Beware of Short-term Management, Not the Short-term Investor

Harvard Business Review

A low stock price can make the firm vulnerable to a hostile takeover, for example. It might even be at the root of national competitiveness (or lack of it), and the economy's (in)ability to develop projects with longer gestation periods. It apparently takes a courageous and confident board member to second-guess the market!

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What's Lost When Shareholders Rule

Harvard Business Review

It is what many countries around the world aspire to, what economists recommend, and what international agencies such as the IMF and World Bank encourage developing and emerging economies around the world to adopt. Boards Leadership Mergers & Acquisitions' Even in the U.S.,

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12 Reasons Crisis Leadership Trumps Crisis Management

N2Growth Blog

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. One thing is for sure – we’ll all be better off when leaders stop trying to manage a crisis and become more proficient at crisis leadership. Crisis Leadership, on the other hand, is ONLY about leading out from crises before it has a chance to begin. By Damian D.