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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

Every university offering a business degree has on their faculty a professor teaching strategy but almost none have a professor teaching its execution. This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value.

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How to Put Leadership Back into Strategy

LDRLB

[Editor’s Note: We’re delighted to be collaborating with Strategy+Business to bring you interviews with top thought leaders in leadership, innovation, and strategt. This post is adapted from a larger interview conducted by Ken Favaro and Art Kleiner. MONTGOMERY: Think about who does strategy in most large companies.

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Clayton Christensen on “The Discipline of Managing Disruption”

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview conducted by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine, published by Bain & Company. To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?, a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges.

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Managing by Reflection

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Henry Mintzberg by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine (March 15, 2010). To read the complete interview, please click here. * * * Managing author Henry Mintzberg believes that to improve business schools, we must first understand the essence of what managers do.

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The Thought Leader Interview: David Kantor

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is Art Kleiner‘s Introduction to an interview of David Kantor, an eminent systems therapist who says that learning to recognize the hidden patterns in conversation is the first step toward more effective executive leadership.

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Best HR Software Providers: Standard-setters in performance tracking to 401(K) management

HR Digest

Human Resources Management Systems (HRMS) these days manage a wide variety of tasks ranging from assessment to learning and strategy planning to payroll management. Here we look at the best HR solutions that make an assessment, learning, recruitment, strategy planning, and all things HR much easier.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/29/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Lawler III Gareth Jones HBR How to Use Your Online Network to Test Ideas John Jantsch Keith Sawyer Management Tip of the Day motivation Paul H. Eccher Peter Gray: Part 2 Rob Goffee Rutger von Post strategy+business talent management The McKinsey Quarterly The Referral Engine These Soft Skills Can Go a Long Way Thomas Williams Zig Zag'

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