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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2019

Leading Blog

These organizations tend to lag behind in innovation, discretionary effort, morale and ultimately performance. Henderson and Barry C. A media controversy. Similarly, middle-level managers who have proteges are 167 percent more likely to be given stretch assignments. An active shooter. A data breach.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. That model still exists, including in online publishing where companies like Automattic, maker of the open source content management system WordPress, sell hosting and related services to publishers. That’s not how Vox Media does it.

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How Much Is Trump Really Disrupting Politics-as-Usual?

Harvard Business Review

But as a strategy professor, I wondered which tools from the study of management could help. Most of the time, the Game of Scrutiny is about missteps, embarrassments, or gaffes, filling the media’s content needs and the coffers of comedians. The media reports it. Or does Trump represent a fundamental change in the U.S.