In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. At the risk of this blog appearing as an advertorial for Harvard, I’ll gladly admit that Harvard Business Review was my favorite management resource.

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Mentor Advertorial Kotter Hamel 228

Coaching Ourselves

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Black Rock manages more than 6 trillion dollars of investments, making it one of of the largest and most influential investors in the world. Our co-founder Henry Mintzberg, has long been proclaiming this need for change. It’s time for leadership development professionals to step up and provide the solution.

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Leadership Development Development Mintzberg Letter 26

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

And my research is essentially about how to help particularly large organizations become better managed, better organized, and more well-equipped for the future. Management still matters significantly. Why does management still matter? Leadership is a process of social influence. DAVID: Fantastic.

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Competitive Advantage Drucker Open-book Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The list includes the brightest stars in the firmament of management thinkers. Pfeffer , Goshal , Bennis , Mintzberg , Adler , Khurana , Starkey , Podolny , to name a few. Within their walls, managers revisit their identities and aspirations. After all, we are trained as social scientists and managers.

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Mintzberg Education Long-term Class 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

According to McGill’s Henry Mintzberg , it’s just another influencing process along with norms, formal authority and expertise. Studies show that individuals with political skills tend to do better in gaining more personal power as well as managing stress and job demands, than their politically naive counterparts.

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 2, 2011

Leadership: In essence, leaders attract followers so that [.]. After having read and reviewed so many business books, I now share brief comments about what I consider to be the 25 most valuable business insights and the books in which they are either introduced or (one man’s opinion) best explained. Here are the third five: 11.

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Review Books Leadership Mintzberg 85

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

I found myself walking back to my hotel in the company of leading management thinker Charles Handy, and our ensuing discussion covered topics as diverse as family business succession in China, education in Singapore, the African Leadership Academy, and populism in Latin America.

Travel 8

Travel Drucker Hotels Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

As famous management professor Henry Mintzberg has described, much of strategy is “ emergent.” In 1990, Al West, the founder and CEO of SEI – the wealth management company that, at the time, was worth $195 million – found himself in a hospital bed for three months after a skiing accident.

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Strategy Long-term Short-term Mintzberg 8