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Leadership : pourquoi quelqu'un devrait-il être dirigé par vous?
Si vous voulez imposer le silence à une assemblée de dirigeants, essayez le truc suivant. Demandez-leur : « Pourquoi quelqu'un aurait-il envie d'être dirigé par vous ? » Voici longtemps que nous posons cette question à l'occasion de missions de conseil auprès de dizaines d'entreprises en Europe et aux États-Unis. Invariablement, elle déclenche soudain un silence stupéfait. On n'entend plus que des genoux qui tremblent. Partager
Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? by Rob Goffee, Gareth Jones
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3 Critical Skills to Teach in Leadership Training
Our book “Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?” ends with a simple injunction – “Be yourself — more — with skill.” It is a message that has resonated with people who aspire to leadership in the workplace. It is much more than a plea for authenticity, for authenticity must be enacted in context.
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“This book is so true, so sensible and so snappily written, I wish I had written it myself. If every business person read it, all managerial stupidity would wither away.” “Stefan and Cary have summarised all the daft things I have seen written about management into one place and then dispatched them as myths by providing great common sense insights in plain English which we can understand.
Training Industry
Despite a healthy budget spent on leadership development each year, we continue to see Gallup polls that identify approximately one-half of the workforce as “not engaged.” Worse, an additional 16.5% are “actively disengaged.” Read about some of the more universal soft skills and how they can help your employees — and in the long run, your company — by boosting morale and improving productivity. As a leader, it falls to you to determine who on your team does each job.
The quad effect: where to spot strategy traps | London Business School
How many wrong assumptions have you made that have led to bad decisions? You’re not alone; many people need a broader view. Strategy frameworks are a way to expose why we think the things we do. Why are these customers seemingly more attractive than others? Are bigger customers really better? How much do the best and worst customers cost? While frameworks can bring rigour to your thinking, a model won’t stop you falling into traps. Here are four all-too-common strategy snares.
Trying to be creative? Don’t be too unique | London Business School
Because few people understood the technology, computer graphics remained niche. It took almost 15 years for people to recognise its wizardry. “They needed John Lasseter,” says Dr Mannucci. “He blended classic animation tools with computer graphics. This helped people understand the novelty of animated features created by this technology.” So if you’re a creative team with a unique toolkit, don’t expect people to fall off their seats when you reveal something ahead of its time.
2 reasons you need to experiment with AI right now | London Business School
Which statement do you believe? Robots will wipe out our jobs. AI and robotics will make everything free. These extreme viewpoints are both vying for our attention. Singularity University, which aims to solve our global grand challenges through exponential technologies, widely reports that AI is the world’s cure. Peter Diamandis, co-founder and chairman of the university, says “rapid demonetisation of the cost of living” is earning his attention.
Trust us: authenticity needs work | London Business School
In the early years of this millennium, the business sector became a punchbag for its detractors as fraud and incompetence brought down some of the world’s largest corporations. First there was the collapse of the energy giant Enron in 2001, closely followed by its “Big Five” accountancy firm Arthur Andersen. Eight months later, WorldCom went bust, becoming the biggest corporate bankruptcy in American history.
Being choosier about choice | London Business School
Choice is great. You can work out what you need or want, match it with what’s on offer and create the perfect life. Choice makes you the master of your destiny. More choice gives you more freedom – and the more freedom you have, the happier you are. Or does it? Sometimes the amount of choosing we do seems overwhelming. For example, which pension plan is best? Does that email need an immediate reply? Face cream for anti-ageing or combination skin? Accept that LinkedIn request? Jeans with button fly or zip?
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Bayerische Motoren Werke AG engages in the manufacture and sale of automobiles and motorcycles. It operates through the following segments: Automotive, Motorcycles and Financial Services. The Automotive segment develops, manufactures, assembles, and sells cars and off-road vehicles, under the following brands: BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce, as well as spare parts and accessories.
10 must-reads for IT leaders: Win a book
We love hearing what’s on the bookshelves and Kindle libraries of the IT leaders we interview. Here are 10 of their book recommendations for fellow IT pros. If you're looking to add some new books to your reading list this spring, be sure to check these out. Bonus: Three lucky readers will have a chance to win one of these titles in our Twitter contest. See details below, and read the rules. You must enter by 11:59 p.m. ET May 21, 2017.
Why executives and HR need to make time to observe
What watching chimpanzees can teach HR professionals and leaders about the powers of observation We recently listened to a remarkable BBC Radio 4 programme The Life Scientific which concerned the work of Frans De Waal, a famous Dutch primatologist and ethologist (though he now resides in Atlanta as a Professor at Emory University). The programme made a huge impression.
Critical Success Factors in Building a Better Workplace
Building better workplaces is not an alternative to, but rather a means for, responding to the new challenges of capitalism, for building productivity, unleashing creativity, and winning. Why Should Anyone Work Here?
What might "the best workplace on earth" look like?
This post is adapted from “Why Should Anyone Work Here? What It Takes to Create an Authentic Organization,” (Harvard Business Review Press, November 2015) by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones. If you enjoy this article, join SmartBrief’s e-mail list for our daily newsletter on being a better, smarter leader.
Authentic Workplaces Don’t Try to Make Everyone the Same
Look around your organization, at the people with whom you interact every day. What do you see? Does your workplace reflect a relative balance of males and females in leadership positions? A healthy range of diversity in terms of age, skin color, religious conviction, culture, or/and sexual orientation? Yes? Before you congratulate yourself on how diverse your workplace is, what if we told you it might not be diverse enough — or at least not in the ways that matter most?
Here’s how to know if you work at an ‘authentic’ company
Reports from Wolfsburg in Germany tell us that the thousands of individuals who work for Volkswagen VLKAY, +1.73% their families and their community are shocked, angry, dismayed and fearful. They are incredulous that an immensely successful company, which many have invested their entire working lives in, could have engaged in systemic, large-scale deceit. Perhaps for the first time they may be asking themselves: Why should anyone work here?
Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? With a New Preface by the Authors
Too many companies are managed not by leaders, but by mere role players and faceless bureaucrats. What does it take to be a real leader-one who is confident in who she is and what she stands for, and who truly inspires people to achieve extraordinary results? authentic Why Should Anyone Be Led By You?
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Why Should Anyone Be Led by You
By Amy Wallace, Charles Duhigg, Stephen Green Verified, Tim Sullivan, Margaret Heffernan, Gareth Jones, Moisés Naím, Hamish McRae Verified, Gary Hamel, Anita Raghavan, Adam Grant Verified, Rita Gunther McGrath, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ed Catmull, Sheryl Sandberg, Ray Fisman, Barbara Kellerman, Richard Rumelt, Sheena Iyengar, Walter Kiechel, Rob Goffee, Jim Collins, Clay Shirky, Joseph Nye, Philip Delves Broughton, Phil Rosenzweig, Charles Handy, Constantinos Markides, Paul Geroski, Sumantra Ghoshal, Yoshi Sheffi
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The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism
By Iain Martin, James B. Stewart Verified, Ben Horowitz, Amy Wallace, Alan Blinder Verified, Stephen Dubner Verified, James Kynge, Dick Martin Verified, Ruchir Sharma, Brad Stone Verified, Julia Angwin, Andrew Keen, Andrew Ross Sorkin Verified, David Wessel, Daniel Schulman Verified, Thomas Friedman Verified, Nick Davies, Bo Burlingham, Charles Duhigg, John Cassidy Verified, Russell Gold, Bryce Hoffman, Robert Frank Verified, Justin Fox Verified, Kurt Eichenwald Verified, Daniel J. Gross, Bob Lutz, David D. Kirkpatrick Verified, Neil Irwin Verified, Paul F. Roberts Verified, Stephen Green Verified, Ian Fraser, Tim Sullivan, James Robinson Verified, Michael Lewis, Christina Binkley Verified, Bethany McLean Verified, Melody Petersen Verified, Charles Morris, Joe Nocera Verified, ROBERT SHILLER, Walter Isaacson, Carl Cannon Verified, John Browne, Margaret Heffernan, Satyajit Das, Gareth Jones, Mohamed El-Erian, Moisés Naím, Peter Diamandis, William Cohan Verified, Daniel Yergin, Cass Sunstein, Don Tapscott, Jeff Rubin, Hamish McRae Verified, Steven Kotler, Edward Glaeser, Howard W. French, Charles Calomiris, Thomas Piketty Verified, Sendhil Mullainathan, Matt Ridley, Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Atif Mian, Amir Sufi, Tom Doctoroff, Gary Hamel, Joshua Ferris, Anita Raghavan, Michael Spence, Kenneth Rogoff, Jeffrey Sachs, Roddy Boyd, Steve Coll Verified, Adam Grant Verified, Rita Gunther McGrath, Alan Greenspan, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ian Bremmer, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Raghuram Rajan, Liaquat Ahamed, Ed Catmull, Stephen Haber, Diane Coyle, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth Cukier Verified, Sheryl Sandberg, Joe Studwell, Eldar Shafir, Angus Deaton, Ray Fisman, John Coates, William Silber, Michael Sandel, Daron Acemoglu, Luigi Zingales, Guy Lawson, Philip Coggan, Christopher Meyer, Julie Kirby, Barbara Kellerman, Richard Rumelt, Sylvia Nasar, Tom Bower, Michael Mandelbaum, Sebastian Mallaby Verified, Sheena Iyengar, Patrick Dillon, Fred Goodman, Anthony Williams, Walter Kiechel, Adam Haslett, George Akerlof, Nandan Nilekani, Frank Partnoy, Rob Goffee, Jim Collins, Carmen Reinhart, Tristram Stuart, William Bernstein, Byron Ousey, Tim Bouquet, Misha Glenny, Alice Schroeder, Clay Shirky, Richard Thaler, Bill Emmott, Joseph Nye, Philip Delves Broughton, Philippe Legrain, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Iain Carson, Richard Bookstaber, Antoine van Agtmael, Phil Rosenzweig, Marc Levinson, Charles Fishman, Daniel Nissannoff, Barton Biggs, Charles Handy, Brook Larmer Verified, Barbara Smit, Debora Spar, Constantinos Markides, Paul Geroski, Steven Levitt, John Battelle, Pietra Rivoli, Corinne Maier, Lucian Bebchuk, Jesse Fried, Sumantra Ghoshal, John Bogle, Philip Augar, Yoshi Sheffi, Paul Ormerod, Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Lawrence Lessig, TED FISHMAN
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The Organization of Your Dreams
We have known for about 150 years that people who enjoy their work are more productive. That is to say high satisfaction is correlated with high performance. And yet many organizations seem to go out of their way to make work alienating, frustrating, and unpleasant. This is evidenced in the depressingly low rates of employee engagement around the world.
Creating the Best Workplace on Earth
Suppose you want to design the best company on earth to work for. What would it be like? For three years we’ve been investigating this question by asking hundreds of executives in surveys and in seminars all over the world to describe their ideal organization. This mission arose from our research into the relationship between authenticity and effective leadership. Simply put, people will not follow a leader they feel is inauthentic.
Leading Clever People
The Idea in Brief Who most determines your company’s success? Clever people—employees whose knowledge and skills enable them to produce disproportionate value for your firm. Think the pharmaceutical researcher who formulates a new drug, or the programmer who creates a new piece of code. Their single innovation may bankroll their entire organization for a decade. To make sure clever people do their best work at your company, you must harness their talents.
Managing Authenticity: The Paradox of Great Leadership
Leadership demands the expression of an authentic self. Try to lead like someone else—say, Jack Welch, Richard Branson, or Michael Dell—and you will fail. Employees will not follow a CEO who invests little of himself in his leadership behaviors. People want to be led by someone “real.” This is partly a reaction to the turbulent times we live in. It is also a response to the public’s widespread disenchantment with politicians and businesspeople. We all suspect that we’re being duped.
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