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Steve Coll’s Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, published by Penguin Press and Allen Lane. The book is a hard-hitting investigation of the notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation, beginning with the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 and closing with the Deepwater…
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The way I heard it, Coach Bryant told the following story at a Touchdown Club meeting many years before his death. * * * I had just been named the new head coach at Alabama and was off in my…
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An interview of Peter B. Vaill conducted by Kerry A. Bunker and Laura Curnutt Santana is included in Extraordinary Leadership: Addressing the Gaps in Senior Executive Development published by Jossey-Bass (2010). Here is a brief excerpt: “By ‘permanent white water,’…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article from The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company and written by Ananth Narayanan, Asutosh Padhi, and Jim Williams, in which they explain how leading companies combine insights about customers, competitors, and…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nate Steere for mint.com. When I stumbled upon it, I was informed that Mint “makes your life easier. At Mint, we believe money is for living. So we make everything simple…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tony Schwartz 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 alerts, please click here. * * * No…
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Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * No matter how great your idea, your innovation effort will…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Michael J. Mauboussin for the Harvard Business Review blog. 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. * …
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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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Congratulations, Mr. President. Now Comes the Hard Part.
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael Watkins 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 alerts, please click…
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