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Powering with Passion and Teaming with Energy

The Practical Leader

Increasingly, therefore, the management of people is a ‘marketing job.’ ’ And in marketing one does not begin with the question, What do we want? Do you have a clear profile of the role and responsibilities, experience/skills, and values of each candidate? They have to be persuaded.

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

I came up through marketing; quite honestly, during my years in marketing I hadn’t given much thought to HR. Prahalad and Henry Mintzberg joined me as silent colleagues. One of my mentors was brilliantly creative, the other skillfully strategic. Human Resources. Dispute Resolution. A client in need of innovation?

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Are Business Schools Clueless or Evil?

Harvard Business Review

Pfeffer , Goshal , Bennis , Mintzberg , Adler , Khurana , Starkey , Podolny , to name a few. Leaders are not made of knowledge and skills alone. Not only in marketing rhetoric but also in educational practice. The public and the press are not alone in raising the question. Leading scholars, best-selling authors, deans.

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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

Henry Mintzberg defined strategic planning as “a formalized system for codifying, elaborating and operationalizing the strategies which companies already have.” Planners have traditionally been obsessed with gathering hard data on their industry, markets, competitors.

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