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To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments

Harvard Business

against the average scores for those metrics from all the executives in our worldwide database. Japan’s educational institutions and cultural work ethic give its managers a jump-start in their careers, but most companies don’t continue the development process as far as it could go. What we found was an incredible paradox.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business

These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. But just as rental houses are often given minimal maintenance, leaders of acquired firms brought in only the minimum leadership necessary.

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4 Ways CEOs Can Conquer Short-Termism

Harvard Business

We offer such a roadmap here, the outcome of a research project , at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, with 25 CEOs and their practices for mastering short-term pressures and creating long-term social and economic value, even in the toughest conditions. The CEOs in our study were adept at telling their company’s story.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Case closed (until engineers develop an algorithm that does the job better). Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult.

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Research: How the Best School Leaders Create Enduring Change

Harvard Business

Our study of the actions and impact of 411 leaders of UK academies found that only 62 of them managed their turnaround successfully and sustainably transformed their school. The first step is to develop a 10-year plan, clearly showing how you aim to transform the school and the community it serves. The school performance pyramid.