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360-Degree Feedback Programs To Help Your Company Grow

HR Digest

Approaches Peer Reviews Delicately An article by Harvard Business Review emphasizes why honest peer reviews are hard to find as people do not want to hurt their friends or feel it might reflect negatively on them as a team. Avoid personal questions and evaluations and focus on the individual’s work performance.

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The Role of Research

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Last week, Bob Sutton wrote on his blog: “most management books are based on anecdotes, the biased recollections of some famous executives, or on research that is presented as rigorous (but is not…Good to Great is a perfect example).”. Over the weekend, I’ve found myself struggling to reconcile two recent comments in my head.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic.

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Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

For over 30 years I worked as a business school professor educating thousands of MBAs and executives. Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company.