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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

The Mafia’s corporate governance system created high-performance teams of entrepreneurial mobsters who quickly seized new openings. Zimmerman is also a founding editor of the Journal of Accounting and Economics, one of the most highly referenced peer-reviewed journals in economics, and has served on several public company boards of directors.

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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

The experiential, highly interactive course included intensive exploration and training in 4 core Masteries: Personal Mastery, Interpersonal Mastery, Team Mastery and Culture and Systems Mastery. We spent half a million dollars to train our people and restructure our reward systems over 10 years.

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Focus on Keeping Up with Your Customers, Not Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing). Have you reinvented your core processes to the same degree?

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Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

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. For example, in finance courses students learn that profitability and return on assets is the measure of business success.

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When Research Should Come with a Warning Label

Harvard Business Review

The fascinating thing about how this information entered the realm of public debate is not just that no one asked this question, but that our system for producing and sharing such knowledge is poorly designed for asking such questions. But what about peer review? But only if the PLoS study is itself true. Communication'