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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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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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Leadership Lessons from India
Cappelli, Peter; Singh, Harbir; Singh, Jitendra V.; Useem, MichaelArticle HBS-R1003G-ELeadership and People ManagementUntil recently India was seen by Western businesses primarily as a source of cheap, low-skill labor. But over the past decade the country has attracted a flood of high-skill jobs from the West. Meanwhile, India's economy has grown at roughly 9% a year, and some of its largest companies have grown at twice that rate. What accounts for this? A host of economic, policy, and other environmental factors have played important roles, but the authors asc...Starting at €8.20
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Four Lessons in Adaptive Leadership
Useem, MichaelArticle HBS-R1011F-ELeadership and People ManagementThe armed services have been in the business of leadership development much longer than the corporate world has. Today's military leaders need tools and techniques to face a fast-changing and unpredictable type of enemy-so the armed services train their officers in ways that build a culture of readiness and commitment. Business leaders need to foster an adaptive culture to survive and succeed, given that they, too, face unprecedented uncertainty-...Starting at €8.20
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Picking the Right Insider for CEO Succession
Carey, Dennis; Phelan, Dan; Useem, MichaelArticle HBS-F0901E-ELeadership and People ManagementGlaxoSmithKline's radical process for choosing the best CEO candidate shows the benefit of running parallel evaluations of the finalists.Starting at €8.20
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Decision Making as Leadership Foundation
Useem, MichaelBook Chapter HBS-6153BC-ELeadership and People ManagementAll organizations have an interest in ensuring that their leaders make good and timely decisions, but good decision making-so vital to effective leadership-is not a skill that comes naturally to every leader. Studies of what Nobel laureate and noted expert on decision making Daniel Kahneman terms "systemic biases"-the mental flaws that separate the choices leaders actually make from what rational agent models expect-reveal that these biases can b...Starting at €8.20
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X-Team Principle 1: External Activity--Achieving High Performance by Managing Teams Across Their Boundaries
Ancona, Deborah; Bresman, HenrikBook Chapter HBS-7836BC-ELeadership and People ManagementHigh-performing teams manage across their boundaries, reaching out to find the information they need, understand the context in which they work, manage the politics and power struggles that surround any team initiative, get support for their ideas, and coordinate the myriad other groups that are key to a team's success. This chapter describes some strategies for helping teams break out of their often myopic internal focus to become X-teams: teams...Starting at €8.20