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Give Your Team the Freedom to Do the Work They Think Matters Most

Harvard Business

Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and—not least—of people. When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it. billion in revenue in 2013.

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CEO Oasis: Relief for “Loneliness at the Top”

Emerson Consulting Group

For months now, Steve has been struggling over cash-flow problems with no solution in sight. A Certified Management Consultant, he has penned columns for Huffington Post, the American Management Association and Boston Magazine. As part of his ongoing column in Money Inc.

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Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs Than MBAs?

Harvard Business

Meanwhile, one of Well Fargo’s chief competitors, Bank of America, has been relatively scandal free, with impressive revenue and profit results for the first half of 2017. Since we were trying to isolate the impact of the CEO’s legal training, we also controlled for CEO characteristics that might lead to less litigation.