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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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Conversation: Nau CEO Chris Van Dyke on Tapping Customers' Passions
Van Dyke, Chris; O'Connell, AndrewArticle HBS-F0709F-EStrategyChris Van Dyke, the CEO of the outdoor apparel start-up Nau, offers some intriguing ideas about how to engage a generation of customers who are comfortable shopping online and eager to enter into a dialogue with the companies they buy from.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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Architect Ellen Dunham-Jones on the future of retail in the postsprawl era
Dunham-Jones, Ellen; O'Connell, AndrewArticle HBS-F0907F-EStrategyThe head of Georgia Tech's architecture program predicts that new kinds of retail developments will rise from the ashes of today's dying suburban malls.Starting at €8.20
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When to Co-Create, When to Go It Alone
O'Connell, AndrewArticle HBS-F1004E-ECompanies shouldn't involve outside firms in their innovation efforts when product complexity is very low or high. When it's somewhere in the middle-that's another story.Starting at €8.20
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The Myth of the Overqualified Worker
O'Connell, AndrewArticle HBS-F1012C-ELeadership and People ManagementDon't reject those overqualified applicants out of hand. New research shows that overqualified workers tend to perform better than other employees, and they don't quit any sooner.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