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Ensuring Better Leaders and Leadership: Implementing the Five Rules of Effective Leadership
Ulrich, Dave; Smallwood, Norm; Sweetman, KateBook Chapter HBS-3929BC-EAccording to Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood, and Kate Sweetman, there are five rules of effective leadership that comprise a leadership code. However, in order to be useful, rules not only have to be defined, but be used and lead to action. In this chapter, the authors explore ideas about how to use all five elements of the code together to build better leadership and to be a better leader. This chapter is excerpted from "The Leadership Code: Five R...Starting at €8.20
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Rule 4: Build the Next Generation--A Cardinal Rule of Effective Leadership
Ulrich, Dave; Smallwood, Norm; Sweetman, KateBook Chapter HBS-3927BC-EToday's talent matters, but tomorrow's talent matters just as much. Leaders who invest in tomorrow's talent build for the future, create sustainability, and ensure a legacy. Human capital should be enhanced just as financial, information, and relationship capital are. To build the next generation, you must be a human capital developer--this chapter shows you how. This chapter is excerpted from "The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead By."Starting at €8.20
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High Wire Act: Credit Suisse and Contingent Capital (A)
Rose, Clayton; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-312007-ELate in 2010, Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan and his team closed in on the decision of whether or not to issue contingent capital, which Swiss regulators would require by 2019. There were a number of substantial issues facing Dougan and his team, including whether contingent capital would provide sufficient loss absorption when called upon, would there be sufficient demand for this new instrument, would it be cost effective capital, and what were...Starting at €8.20
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Defining Leadership Code: The Five Rules of Effective Leadership
Ulrich, Dave; Smallwood, Norm; Sweetman, KateBook Chapter HBS-3921BC-EKnowledge and CommunicationEveryone agrees that leadership matters. But what makes an effective leader? The answer to this simple question is elusive, but according to Ulrich, Smallwood, and Sweetman, there is actually a leadership code comprised of five rules. If you want to be aStarting at €8.20
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High Wire Act: Credit Suisse and Contingent Capital, Teaching Plan
Rose, Clayton; Lane, DavidTeaching Note HBS-313048-EThis teaching plan is designed to be used in conjunction with the case "High Wire Act: Credit Suisse and Contingent Capital," (A) and (B), HBS Nos. 312-007 and 312-008, to help faculty deepen student comprehension of business issues and energize classroom discussion.Starting at €0.00
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Investment Technology Group
Rose, Clayton; Lane, DavidCase HBS-310064-EITG CEO Robert Gasser wondered if the financial crisis had permanently affected the firm's business model. A leader in trade analytics and execution for institutional equity investors, ITG had grown since its establishment in 1987 in step with the dramatic rise in equity trading volumes. During 2009, however, investors curbed their equities trading, depressing ITG's heavily commission-based revenues, and earnings plunged by 63%, resulting in ITG'...Starting at €8.20
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Rule 3: Engage Today's Talent--A Cardinal Rule of Effective Leadership
Ulrich, Dave; Smallwood, Norm; Sweetman, KateBook Chapter HBS-3926BC-ELeadership can never occur in isolation from followers. Leaders must be talent managers. Talent managers know how to identify, build, and engage talent to get results now. Talent managers identify what skills are required, draw talent to their organizations, develop people, engage them, and ensure that employees turn in their best efforts. Talent managers generate intense personal, professional, and organizational loyalty. How to optimize talent ...Starting at €8.20
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Rule 1: Shape the Future--A Cardinal Rule of Effective Leadership
Ulrich, Dave; Smallwood, Norm; Sweetman, KateBook Chapter HBS-3924BC-EStrategy is being clear about where you want to go. The language may differ--mission, vision, goals, strategies, objectives, and outcomes--but any leader's intention is to create a future that is even more attractive than the present by occupying a strategic position that no one else can touch. Shaping the future--one of the cardinal rules of leadership--requires you to master the four strategy principles that are outlined in this chapter. This c...Starting at €8.20
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Rule 5: Invest Yourself--A Cardinal Rule of Effective Leadership
Ulrich, Dave; Smallwood, Norm; Sweetman, KateBook Chapter HBS-3928BC-EPersonal proficiency is the ultimate rule of leadership, and it starts with knowing yourself. If you are not grounded through your values and beliefs, credible through your judgment, emotionally mature through your ability to analyze yourself and connect with others, and willing to learn and grow as a leader, you will not be prepared to fill your role completely. In this chapter, the authors make recommendations for gaining insight into yourself ...Starting at €8.20
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Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference
Rose, Clayton; Lenhardt, Jerome; Beyersdorfer, DanielaCase HBS-315016-ELeadership and People ManagementFor Kai Teckentrup, the owner and co-CEO of the German "Mittelstand" door manufacturer Teckentrup, balancing competitive pressures, demographic realities and values were at the heart of the diversity program that he had started and championed at the company. Beyond this, attracting skilled workers to Germany was a national imperative; as the native population aged and its numbers in the workforce shrank, it would be critical to find new workers t...Starting at €8.20