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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. “Of course,” he added, “I think the applause would be even louder if I’d talked about the holacracy initiative.”

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Case Study: Should an Algorithm Tell You Who to Promote?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. ” Ed explained that while he was proud of the growth FreshFace had experienced under his leadership, he was ready for a new challenge. “Of course.”

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Book Review: Michael Porter On Competition

Management Consulted

Part V- Strategy and leadership: A great discussion on recognizing that great leadership is required to achieve superior value creation. If you have successfully navigated through to the end of this book, you will feel like you completed a rigorous three-credit business school course! Pretty cool! INTERESTING BOOK INSIGHTS.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business

Edelman estimates that one in three employees doesn’t trust their employer — despite the fact that billions are spent every year on leadership development. Part of the problem: Our primary method of developing leaders is antithetical to the type of leadership we need. What would work better? Make it experiential.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Reversing this means that companies start at the end — with results.

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Case Study: Should You Adjust Your Business Model for a Major Customer?

Harvard Business

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The year before, prompted by all this, Lumiscape’s leadership had decided to pivot from a sales model to a subscription model. “Of course he is.”

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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

If you are returning to school, take a wildly different class than your course of study. You were probably practicing case studies daily, so it should be easy to replace this daily discipline with practicing a new language every day. Want to gain unique insights into leadership and civil service? Learn a New Skill.