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How Presidents Persuade (Spanish version)
Gergen, David; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0301DLeadership and People ManagementDavid Gergen, adviser to presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton, knows a thing or two about how leaders get their messages across. In this edited e-mail interview with HBR's Gardiner Morse, Gergen discusses the power of persuasion and the theatrics of communicating well.Starting at €8.20
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Filling Big Shoes at Adobe (Spanish version)
Chizen, Bruce; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0303CLeadership and People ManagementWhen Bruce Chizen took over as president and CEO from Adobe's legendary founders in 2000, he knew he had to confront the skeptics who doubted he had the technological grounding to lead the company. In this interview, Chizen describes how he won converts by acknowledging his shortcomings and discusses the leadership lessons he learned along the way.Starting at €8.20
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Innovating a Classic at Airstream (Spanish version)
Riegel, Dicky; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0310CStrategyAirstream's ability to innovate and grow depends on balancing longtime owners' expectations with new buyers' desires. In this conversation, president and CEO Dicky Riegel speaks about making sure that the more the iconic, egg-shaped aluminum trailers change, the more they remain the same.Starting at €8.20
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Set Up to Fail: Economist Paul Ormerod on Strategy and Extinction
Ormerod, Paul; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0706G-EStrategyMost organizations bend over backward to avoid failure. They shouldn't, says economist Paul Ormerod. History shows that failure and success are inherently random, so firms should innovate and adapt.Starting at €8.20
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Historian Geoffrey Jones on why knowledge stays put
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0807H-EStrategyA business historian reminds us that since the nineteenth century, predictions about globalization have been reliably wrong. Despite technology for the fast diffusion of knowledge, information-like wealth-seems to be concentrating even further.Starting at €8.20
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Too Big to Fail How About Too Big to Exist
Watts, DuncanArticle HBS-F0906C-EHaving studied the dynamics of cascades in complex systems, this Columbia sociologist and network scientist argues that the most damaging ones are impossible to anticipate. The solution, therefore, may be to make systems less complex to start with, in order to reduce the chance that any one part can trigger a catastrophic chain of events. In the financial system, this means preventing companies from growing too big to fail in the first place.Starting at €8.20
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Executive Psychopaths (Spanish version)
Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0410DLeadership and People ManagementThey're in your organization--and they're easy to mistake for high potentials. But psychologists Robert Hare and Paul Babiak are readying a test to flush them out.Starting at €8.20
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When Stability Breeds Instability (Spanish version)
Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0512KLeadership and People ManagementLow turnover--typically a sign of organizational health--seems to increase a company's vulnerability to the effects of losing social capital.Starting at €8.20
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Shut Up and Stop Whining (Spanish version)
Winget, Larry; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0612FLeadership and People ManagementLarry Winget, "The Pit Bull of Personal Development," uses irritation rather than motivation to get managers on the road to improvement.Starting at €8.20
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Set Up to Fail: Economist Paul Ormerod on Strategy and Extinction (Spanish version)
Ormerod, Paul; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0706GStrategyMost organizations bend over backward to avoid failure. They shouldn't, says economist Paul Ormerod. History shows that failure and success are inherently random, so firms should innovate and adapt.Starting at €8.20