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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? As any manager knows, a generic-sounding list of values won’t move the culture needle unless leadership brings it to life.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

Pair it with “The Hidden Traps in Decision Making” (2006), by John S. A follow-up article, coauthored with Amy Edmondson and Francesca Gino, delved more deeply into such issues as psychological safety, openness to new ideas, and leadership attention. Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult. Hammond, Ralph L.