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Leaders Who Get Change Right Know How to Listen

Harvard Business

Take Anne Mulcahy, who stepped into the CEO role at Xerox in 2001, during a particularly tough time in the company’s history. What she learned informed her strategy for the turnaround, which she then communicated through a series of town halls, roundtables, and memos. “The response was overwhelming,” Mulcahy said.

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How Companies Escape the Traps of the Past

Harvard Business

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. ” In his characteristic style, Welch blasted the Elfun Society at their leadership conference. So, how do you build Box 2 muscle? How do you build a company that’s able to routinely toss what no longer works?

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them. .” Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult.