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Clayton Christensen Asks: “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

March 15, 2023

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Clayton M. Christensen for Harvard Business Review (July–August 2010 Issue) and the HBR Blog Network. Christensen passed away last week of leukemia. All who knew him loved and respected him. In…

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Michael Porter on “What Is Strategy?”

May 21, 2022

Here is an excerpt from a “classic” article written by Michael Porter for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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Richard Rumelt on three biases that can corrupt any strategy

April 25, 2022

In his latest book, The Crux, Richard P. Rumelt explains how leaders can become strategists, for better or worse. In Chapter 18 (Pages 294-296), he  examines three biases that can corrupt any strategy. Optimism bias “means that people tend to…

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Psychological safety and the critical role of leadership development

February 16, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article that shares the results of a major global study of psychological safety and the critical role of leadership development. It was featured in the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read…

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What Business Are You In?: Classic Advice from Theodore Levitt

February 1, 2021

If I had to select the five most influential articles ever to appear in Harvard Business Review, the first would be Ted Levitt’s “Marketing Myopia” (1960). Another would be this article (October 2006) by HBR‘s then editors who discuss Levitt…

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Amy Jen Su on becoming the leader you want to be: An interview by Bob Morris

February 12, 2020

For almost two decades, Amy Jen Su has worked with CEOs, executives, and rising stars in organizations to sustain and scale their “highest and best” as they lead organizational change and transformation. A seasoned coach for industries such as biotechnology,…

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter on telling the right compelling story

January 22, 2020

In Think Outside the Building, Rosabeth Moss Kanter explains how advanced leaders can change the world one smart innovation at a time. Some of her most valuable ideas focus on how and why telling the right compelling story is so…

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter on how to attack a castle

January 10, 2020

In Think Outside the Building, Rosabeth Moss Kanter explains how advanced leaders can change the world one smart innovation at a time. Kanter introduces an especially appropriate extended metaphor: “Castles are representations of institutions…[they] are any set of institutional structures…

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What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

January 16, 2019

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Charles Duhigg for The New York Times (February 25, 2016). To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about special deep-discount subscription rates, please click here. * *…

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Leadership Presence (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series): A book review by Bob Morris

December 5, 2018

Leadership Presence (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press “We convince by our presence.” Walt Whitman HBR Press has a series of anthologies (nine volumes thus far) of articles in which contributors offer proven research that shows…

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