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Leadership's Online Labs
Reeves, Byron; Malone, Thomas W.; O'Driscoll, TonyArticle HBS-R0805C-ELeadership and People ManagementMultiplayer online role-playing games are sprawling cybercommunities that offer a sneak preview of tomorrow's business environment. Players who lead teams in these online worlds hone the skills that they will need as business leaders in the future. Games also provide an environment that makes being an effective leader easier and that today's businesses might try to replicate selectively in their own organizations. Those are the principal findings...Starting at €8.20
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The Age of Hyperspecialization
Malone, Thomas W.; Laubacher, Robert J.; Johns, TammyArticle HBS-R1107C-ESince 1776, when Adam Smith described how the division of labor could spur economic progress, work has increasingly been broken into ever smaller tasks performed by ever more specialized workers. Now, however, as knowledge work expands and technology advances, we've entered a new era of hyperspecialization: Work previously done by one person is divided into more-specialized pieces done by multiple people, achieving improvements in quality, speed,...Starting at €8.20
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In Praise of the Incomplete Leader
Ancona, Deborah; Malone, Thomas W.; Orlikowski, Wanda J.; Senge, Peter M.Article HBS-R0702E-ELeadership and People ManagementThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Today's top executives are expected to do everything right, from coming up with solutions to unfathomably complex problems to having the charisma and prescience to rally stakeholders around a perfect vision of the future. But no one leader can be all things to all ...Starting at €8.20
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La era de la hiperespecialización
Malone, Thomas W.; Laubacher, Robert J.; Johns, TammyArticle HBS-R1107CKnowledge and CommunicationDesde 1776, cuando Adam Smith describió cómo la división del trabajo podría estimular el progreso económico, el trabajo cada vez se ha dividido en tareas cada vez más pequeñas realizadas por los trabajadores cada vez más especializados. Ahora, sin embargo, como se expande el trabajo del conocimiento y la tecnología avanza, hemos entrado en una nueva era de hiperespecialización: trabajo previamente realizado por una sola persona se divide en trozo...Starting at €8.20