Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I IN 1982, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman released In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies. The book was a huge business bestseller and served as a guide for managers for many years to come. Yet, Peters and Waterman pointed out that there were bright spots in the economy. Feel familiar? Perhaps not.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He is a co-author of The IMAGE/3000 Handbook, the reference work for the HP 3000 IMAGE database management system. On the topic of the most important qualities in leaders, David believes that leaders should focus on helping people to grow into their potential. Once you’ve made your decision, never look back.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 10, 2011

You may have a heart of gold — but so does a hard-boiled egg.&# Way too many managers confuse intentions, plans, and declarations with actions. Interested in launching, and then sustaining a program of quality improvement through the empowerment of front-line people? Managing by Muddling Around. Ivory Tower Visions.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. Business Month named MCI one of the five best-managed companies in 1990.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. Business Month named MCI one of the five best-managed companies in 1990.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., In his tenure as McKinsey's worldwide managing director, Gupta displayed macher-like ambition not just for himself but even more so for his firm.

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