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When Charismatic Leadership Goes Too Far

Harvard Business

Leadership is changing — fast. But true charismatic leadership is more than just a set of techniques to excite followers. Creativity and productivity decline. First, charismatic leadership is as seductive for the leader as for followers, and the better one is at it, the easier it is to be blind to signs of trouble.

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Using M&A to Increase Your Capacity for Growth

Harvard Business

In today’s fast-changing, unpredictable environments, companies must simultaneously exploit existing profitable business models to run their core business and also explore new products, markets, and models to drive growth. As companies grow and age, many succeed by optimizing for one successful model of growth and profit.

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Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public?

Harvard Business

In the last week, film producer Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual harassment — which many have described as an open secret in Hollywood — have exploded onto the pages of the New York Times. But linking gender equity to leadership is equally vital. Emma Innocenti/Getty Images. How does something like this happen?

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Finding the Healthy Tension Between Being Confident and Collaborative

Harvard Business

Namely, they combine their talent with an important balance between self-confidence and collaboration. Long before a computer-animated feature film was technically possible, Catmull and Lasseter were determined to make one. I saw Lasseter bring the same attention to every frame of Pixar’s films.

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Aging Societies Should Make More of Mentorship

Harvard Business

The past year brought a rich array of films depicting connections between a wise, older mentor and a younger person in need of sage guidance, in ways that often defied gauzy stereotypes, from art-house movies like Lily Tomlin’s Grandma to blockbusters like Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

So I just started really getting training for and looking for opportunities in project management in the media space, and after about a year-and-a-half of just building up the skill set necessary to get one of those roles, I landed a job for a small production company here in Atlanta. We work with a lot of really cool clients. Okay, awesome.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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