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Diversity As Strategy (Spanish version)
Thomas, David A.Article HBS-R0409GLeadership and People Managementstrong support from company leaders, an employee base that is fully engaged with the initiative, management practices that are integrated and aligned with the effort, and a strong and well-articulated business case for action. All four elements have helped IBM make diversity a key corporate strategy tied to real growth.Starting at €8.20
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In Praise of the Incomplete Leader (Spanish version)
Ancona, Deborah; Malone, Thomas W.; Orlikowski, Wanda J.; Senge, Peter M.Article HBS-R0702ELeadership and People Managementsensemaking, relating, "visioning," and inventing. Sensemaking involves understanding and mapping the context in which a company and its people operate. A leader skilled in this area can quickly identify the complexities of a given situation and explain them to others. The second capability, relating, means being able to build trusting relationships with others through inquiring, advocating, and connecting. Visioning, the third capability, means...Starting at €8.20
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X-Team Principle 2: Extreme Execution--Internal and External Activity are Complementary
Ancona, Deborah; Bresman, HenrikBook Chapter HBS-7837BC-ELeadership and People ManagementHigh-performing teams, or "X-teams," combine high levels of external activity outside the team with extreme execution inside the team. This chapter examines what it takes to build a culture of extreme execution and provides tools that foster the internal processes that are needed to coordinate, integrate, and reap the benefits of the external activities of X-teams. This chapter is excerpted from "X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, ...Starting at €8.20
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X-Factors: The X-Team Support Structure--Designing a Team to Maximize Your Company's Innovative Capacity
Ancona, Deborah; Bresman, HenrikBook Chapter HBS-7839BC-ELeadership and People ManagementIt takes an X-team, a high-performing team that is externally as well as internally focused, to engage in distributed leadership through its ability to innovate, adapt, and bring life to corporate strategies. But the X-team is not a simple solution: it requires melding internal and external activities, shifting activities over time, and linking the passion and voice from below to the big picture on high. Given such complexity, how is it possible ...Starting at €8.20
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Crafting an Infrastructure for Innovation: The X-Team Program
Ancona, Deborah; Bresman, HenrikBook Chapter HBS-7841BC-ELeadership and People ManagementSuppose you are a CEO, or the director of a large division, or the head of human resources, or a manager in R&D, and you don't want to create just one high-performing X-team? What if you want to create a set of X-teams that create innovative products and ideas year after year and eventually reshape the way your organization functions? This calls for an X-team program-such as those developed at Merrill Lynch and BP. This chapter is excerpted from...Starting at €8.20
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The Hybrid Model (Spanish version)
Groysberg, Boris; Thomas, David A.; Reavis, CateCase HBS-413S04Leadership and People ManagementSupplements the (A) case.Starting at €8.20
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Despedida Laboral
Thomas, David A.Case HBS-404S11Leadership and People ManagementUn supervisor de la empresa escuchas a un empleado, una mujer afroamericana, anuncian que deja la compañía y trata de comprender la situación.Starting at €8.20
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Keeping Google "Googley" (Abridged) (Spanish version)
Groysberg, Boris; Thomas, David A.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-410S04Leadership and People ManagementStarting 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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Sonoco Products Company (A), (B), and (C), and Sonoco Products Company (A) (Abridged), Teaching Note
Groysberg, Boris; Lane, David; Thomas, David A.Teaching Note HBS-407058-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note to 405-009, 405-010, 407-063 and 410082.Starting at €0.00