Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: The higher one rises in an organization, the more one must be a generalist.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Effective executives understand the productivity and customer loyalty future depends as much on motivating and managing their machines as inspiring their people. Empowering smart machines to — pun intended — live up to their potential may well become the essential new 21st-century leadership skill.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Investors will not only have the potential for a decent rate of return but can be secure in the knowledge that they’re "part of the social mission to cure.". boards, and yet make up less than 7 percent of senior leadership at startups. Imagining pouring a decade of work into a product. So how do you pay for it?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Spurred on by digital-native competitors, the retail sector has captured about 30% to 40% of the margin improvements and productivity growth we identified in 2011. Manufacturing has captured some 20% to 30% of the potential, while the public sector and health care make the worst showings, realizing only 10% to 20% of the value.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

They constitute a coherent constellation of leadership and management practices, as described by more than a score of books. These problems hardly arose overnight; they began brewing early. However, it was after the advent of the internet that the challenges to the shareholder value maximization became forceful.

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

Instead, its leadership wondered how to gauge the transformation of people that Bacon identified as the real objective. That’s a rate of return most investors would take in a heartbeat, and it bespeaks the commitment that comes with deepening engagement, not continuing “membership.”

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Drucker Objective Self-aware Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Over 20 years ago, Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter introduced the Porter hypothesis , which posits that environmental regulation can benefit companies by nudging them to explore their current production methods and eliminate costly waste that they have been blissfully unaware of.

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