Leader Quotes by Harvard Business School Press

9 Leader quotes by Harvard Business School Press

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“Transformations often begin, and begin well, when an organization has a new head who is a good leader and who sees the…

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“Leadership has many voices. You need to be who you are, not try to emulate somebody else.”

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“leaders who do undertake a voyage of personal understanding and development can transform not only their own capabilities but also those of…

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“When the 75 members of Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Advisory Council were asked to recommend the most important capability for leaders…

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“Executives are doers; they execute. Knowledge is useless to executives until it has been translated into deeds. But before springing into action,…

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“But Welch also thought through another issue before deciding where to concentrate his efforts for the next five years. He asked himself…

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“For an example of empathy in action, consider what happened when two giant brokerage companies merged, creating redundant jobs in all their…

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“Indeed, our recent research has led us to conclude that one of the most reliable indicators and predictors of true leadership is…

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“Worried that you’re not a born leader? That you lack charisma, the right talents, or some other secret ingredient? No need: leadership…

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“The use of “war games” is a powerful antidote to the lack of thinking about competitors’ reactions to proposed moves. 11.”

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“If thinking is an intellectual response to a problem, then the absence of a problem leads to the absence of thinking.”

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“Business-unit managers should remain involved in corporate-level strategy planning that affects their units. But a focus on issues rather than business units better aligns…

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“More than anything else, this disconnect—between the way planning works and the way decision making happens—explains the frustration, if not outright antipathy, most executives…

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“Uhlaner put in place a Growth and Performance Planning Process that starts with agreement by Ballmer’s leadership team on a set of strategic themes—major…

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“Stockdale Paradox This finding is named after Admiral James Stockdale, winner of the Medal of Honor, who survived seven years in a Vietcong POW…

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“Management must think of itself not as producing products but as providing customer-creating value satisfactions. It must push this idea (and everything it means…

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“Worried that you’re not a born leader? That you lack charisma, the right talents, or some other secret ingredient? No need: leadership isn’t about…

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“Is that not what consumer research is for—to find out before the fact what is going to happen? The answer is that Detroit never…

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“By embracing decision-focused planning, companies will almost certainly find that the quantity and quality of their decisions will improve.”

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“they’ve also changed the nature of top management’s discussions about strategy—from “review and approve” to “debate and decide,”

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“When is the urgency rate high enough? From what I have seen, the answer is when about 75% of a company’s management is honestly…

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“In short, a customer feedback program should be viewed not as “market research” but as an operating management tool.”

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“Executives also owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs. It may not be…

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