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Leadership

What are the qualities and skills required to lead individuals or organizations towards their goals? More generally, how to train and engage teams?

Three Myths About Your Strengths

Jack Zenger, Joseph Folkman

This article assesses a change that occurred over the past several years, which consists in focusing on the strengths of the staff rather than on the axes of development.

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Tours of Duty: The New Employer-Employee Compact

Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh

An in-depth article on the new relationship between the enterprise and its staff, and the deep consequences on talent management.

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The first 100 days of a new CIO: Nine steps for wiring in success

Michael Bloch, Paul Willmott

The first hundred days of an executive—a CIO in this case—should be prepared for even before arriving on the job, in order to maximize the odds of success.

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Developing Global Leaders

Pankaj Ghemawat

Dispel some misconceptions about how best to develop international leaders.

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Flipping the Odds for Successful Reorganization

Andrew Toma, Fabrice Roghé, Brad Noakes, Rainer Strack, Julie Kilmann, Ralf Dicke

The key success factors forreorganization projects.

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Simple Rules for a Complex World

Donald Sull, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

Of the importance of relying on a small number of clear principles, rather than on a myriad of procedures, when facing the increasing complexity of the economic environment.

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Why Leaders Don’t Learn From Success

Francesca Gino, Gary P. Pisano

How to draw lessons from success while avoiding traps of complacency and misinterpretation.

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How to Successfully Manage Opposing Strategies

Roger L. Martin

In this article, the “father” of integrative thinking describes how to apply it using a case study.

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Be a Better Manager: Live Abroad

William W. Maddux, Adam D. Galinsky, Carmit T. Tadmor

An article on the specific competencies that leaders develop when taking positions abroad.

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Accelerating Corporate Transformations (Don’t Lose Your Nerve!)

Robert H. Miles

How can you hedge against some factors that tend to slow down reorganizations?

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