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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Never confuse charisma with leadership. They listen as well as they speak. The key to that is to build a sustainable culture.

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Three Ways CIOs Can Connect with the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Define Your Strategy. CIOs need to develop an affirmative IT strategy that begins by identifying old behaviors to give up, new behaviors to adopt, and remaining behaviors to do differently. To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical. This means a lot of change for enterprise IT organizations.

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Your Organization Wastes Time. Here’s How to Fix It.

Harvard Business Review

Recent analysis by Bain found that the biggest biopharma value creators are category leaders, and those that combine their category leadership with portfolio focus within their categories deliver annual total shareholder returns more than twice those of companies that are diversified followers. But that drags down shareholder returns.

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Can Hewlett Packard Make its Own Luck?

Harvard Business Review

It can be easy to dramatically expand revenue and profits when you are the upstart in an emerging sector — but once you're on top, sustaining this leadership position isn't easy. The technology market is the epitome of creative destruction. Hewlett Packard is a case in point. What's the smart thing to do?