Commentaries

The Indispensable, Unlikely Leadership of Abraham Lincoln

December 1, 2012

Here is a link to an interview with Gautam Mukunda, Harvard Business School assistant professor and author of Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter. The HBR IdeaCast is a weekly series, bringing you the analysis and advice of the leading minds…

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Here are strategy+business magazine’s “Best Business Books of 2012”

November 30, 2012

Theodore Kinni has just published an article in which he announces strategy+business magazine‘s “Best Business Books of 2012.”  They are grouped within eight separate categories. s+b is published by Booz & Company. To read the complete article, check out other…

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Colin Price on “Leadership and the art of plate spinning”

November 30, 2012

In this article featured in The McKinsey Quarterly published by McKinsey & Company, Colin Price explains why senior executives will better balance people and priorities by embracing the paradoxes of organizational life. Here is a brief excerpt from it. To…

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Maxwell Wessel and Clayton M. Christensen on “Surviving Disruption”

November 30, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Maxwell Wessel and Clayton M. Christensen for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. Photography: Nash…

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The Essential CIO: Insights from IBM’s Global Chief Information Officer Study (2011)

November 30, 2012

How are technology leaders helping their organizations adapt to the accelerating change and complexity that mark today’s competitive and economic landscape? To find out, IBM interviewed 3,018 CIOs, spanning 71 countries and 18 industries. Public and private sector CIOs described…

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Tom Kelley and David Kelley on “Fighting the Fears that Block Creativity”

November 29, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tom Kelley and David Kelley for the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email…

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Does Management Really Work?

November 29, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen and featured by Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and sign up for email alerts, please click here.…

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Resilience Quotations: Part 2

November 28, 2012

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” J. B. Priestley “No one who is being himself is going…

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Innovation lessons from Pixar: A conversation with Oscar-winning director Brad Bird

November 28, 2012

What does stimulating the creativity of animators have in common with developing new product ideas or technology breakthroughs? A lot. Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Hayagreeva Rao, Robert Sutton, and Allen P. Webb during which…

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Mollie Lombardi on “Expanding the Use of Assessments”

November 28, 2012

Best-in-class organizations are using assessments not only to understand the skills and traits employees have today, but also their capacity to grow. Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mollie Lombardi for Talent Management magazine. To check out…

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