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Stephen Schwarzman’s 25 Rules for Work & Life

Leading Blog

This is where he really learned about finance and discovered his strengths. Today, Blackstone has over $500 billion in assets under management. Every business is a closed, integrated system with a set of distinct but interrelated parts. Great managers understand how each part works on its own and in relation to all the others.

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Top 30 Leadership Blogs 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

You can follow Seth on Twitter @ThisIsSethsBlog Alexa Rank : 4,876 Google Page Rank : 7 PostRank Leadership Score : N/A Number of Posts in last 30 days : 35 TwitterGrader Score : 100 The Management Experts : If you’re looking for a positive spin on leadership then look no further than Phil Gerbyshak. And LeaderLab at [link].

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Stop Comparing Management to Sports

Harvard Business Review

The message for managers is clear: this is the way to outcompete your business rivals; these are the traits that will bring you and your company commercial victory. Good management is not like a competitive sport. Good management is not like a competitive sport. Why sports metaphors are damaging. ” Research backs this up.

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Jim Collins, Meet Michael Porter

Harvard Business Review

In a series of books starting with Built to Last , Collins has addressed every manager's ultimate anxiety: performance. Each new book finds just the right question, the point of intersection between the timeless issue — performance — and the timely challenge managers are grappling with today. Be disciplined. Be empirical.

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What It Will Take to Change the Culture of Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

Also, I sent him two pieces I wrote for HBR.org, one on the importance of focusing on organizational behavior and not just individuals , the other asserting that culture had more to do with the financial crisis than leverage ratios did. And what happened to the compensation of the typical JP Morgan managing director?

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Management by Extremes

Deming Institute

And, what about inventories? From waste to non-value-added efforts to defects, is less always better for the system at hand, striving for zero? That is, a more economically viable solution, in which the investment in variety is off-set by the systemic savings. Standardization or diversity?

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Research: For a Corporate Apology to Work, the CEO Should Look Sad

Harvard Business Review

Publishing in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes , they present the findings of two studies. Another paper appearing in the Journal of Corporate Finance adds an interesting wrinkle to this subject. Adams of the London Business School examine how expressions of emotion affect corporate apologies.

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