Michael Useem

The STAR Model: Close the Saying-Doing Gap to Build a High-Performing Team

June 11, 2017

The Executive Education and Center for Leadership and Change Management programs at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania continue to generate an abundance of valuable material for executives in need of cutting edge thinking. Nao Tools offer an…

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Fortune Makers: A book review by Bob Morris

March 24, 2017

Fortune Makers: The Leaders Creating China’s Great Global Companies Michael Useem, Harbir Singh, Neng Liang, and Peter Cappelli PublicAffairs/Imprint of Perseus Books (March 2017) How China has used capitalism to pull 600 million people out of poverty and will soon…

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The “Chinese Way” of Doing Business

March 10, 2017

In Fortune Makers, Michael Useem, Harbir Singh, Neng Liang, and Peter Cappelli focus on “the leaders creating China’s great companies.” They explain how these leaders “have used capitalism to pull 600 million people out of poverty and [China] is on…

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The Leaders Creating China’s Great Companies

March 7, 2017

In Fortune Makers, Michael Useem, Harbir Singh, Neng Liang, and Peter Cappelli focus on “the leaders creating China’s great companies.” They explain how these leaders “have used capitalism to pull 600 million people out of poverty and [China] is on…

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The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap: A book review by Bob Morris

October 31, 2016

The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap: 6 Steps for Integrating Leadership and Strategy Harbor Singh and Michael Useem, Wharton Digital Press (October 2016) How to master the elements of strategy and leadership both separately and as an integrated whole This is one…

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Business Leadership Lessons from the Military

November 5, 2012

Military work — like business — is risky, pressured, and fast-changing. It calls for absolute clarity about the mission, extraordinary adaptability, and precise management of complex systems. To those such as I with a special interest in business lessons to…

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Leadership Lessons from the Military

July 13, 2011

Previously, I posted excerpts from articles that comprise a series sponsored by Harvard Business Review. Now, all of the articles plus other material have been published both in a single volume and as a PDF. The complete collection is for…

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Terry R. Bacon: An interview by Bob Morris

April 12, 2011

  Terry R. Bacon is a Scholar in Residence in the Korn/Ferry Institute.  Previously, he was founder and CEO of Lore International Institute.  He has a B.S. in engineering from West Point and a PhD in literary studies from The American University. …

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Leadership Lessons from the Military

March 18, 2011

Military work — like business — is risky, pressured, and fast-changing. It calls for absolute clarity about the mission, extraordinary adaptability, and precise management of complex systems. To those such as I with a special interest in business lessons to…

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