Boris Groysberg,Andrew Hill,Toby Johnson
Boris Groysberg
Americans have long believed that U.S. military officers--trained for high-stakes positions, resilience, and mental agility--make excellent CEOs. That belief is sound, but the authors' analysis of the performance of 45 companies led by CEOs...
Admiral Thad Allen
Admiral Thad Allen
When responding to a complex, fast-moving crisis, leaders must constantly adapt their mental models and create a "unity of effort." argues Allen, a retired U.S. Coast Guard admiral and the national incident commander for the Deepwater Horiz...
Extreme negotiations [0.03%]
极致谈判
Jeff Weiss,Aram Donigian,Jonathan Hughes
Jeff Weiss
CEOs and other senior executives must make countless complex, high-stakes deals across functional areas and divisions, with alliance partners and critical suppliers, and with customers and regulators. The pressure of such negotiations may m...
Tony Hey
Tony Hey
For decades, computer scientists have tried to teach computers to think like human experts. Until recently, most of those efforts have failed to come close to generating the creative insights and solutions that seem to come naturally to the...
Todd Rogers,Michael I Norton
Todd Rogers
Venkat Ramaswamy,Francis Gouillart
Venkat Ramaswamy
These days more companies are inviting customers to help them design products. Now a few are taking things further and including their other stakeholders--employees, suppliers, distributors, and even regulators--in "co-creation" efforts, to...
Competing on talent analytics [0.03%]
人才分析竞争
Thomas H Davenport,Jeanne Harris,Jeremy Shapiro
Thomas H Davenport
Do investments in your employees actually affect workforce performance? Who are your top performers? How can you empower and motivate other employees to excel? Leading-edge companies such as Google, Best Buy, Procter & Gamble, and Sysco use...
Reading the public mind [0.03%]
透视公众心理
Andrew O&#x;Connell
Andrew O&#x;Connell
The boss as human shield [0.03%]
人质老板防护盾
Robert I Sutton
Robert I Sutton
As employees strive to do their jobs, they face threats to productivity from all quarters-disruptive technology, meddlesome superiors, senseless organizational practices, and abusive clients and customers. Sutton, of Stanford University, re...
Lew McCreary
Lew McCreary
The Innovation Consultancy, a small team within the health care provider Kaiser Permanente, practices an expansive, service-focused version of innovation that is both rapid and economical in comparison with the conventional version. The tea...