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I have co-written this week’s blog entry with Tsun-yan Hsieh, who has spent the past three decades working with global leaders to help them become more effective. He is Director Emeritus at McKinsey, as well as a member of the Cue Ball Collective .
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How Good Are You at Critical Conversations?
(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future . The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria , Rakesh Khurana , and Scott Snook .) Earlier this year, at the Economist summit on Sustainability , Paul Polman , the CEO of the ~€40m consumer products giant Unilever, announced that “We have set out a new vision for the company – the challenge of doubling our size whilst reducing our environmental footprint. ..
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Leadership in the Age of Climate Change
With the 2010 midterm elections looming on the horizon—and some primaries rapidly approaching—Campaign Desk will soon be devoting more attention to the coverage of the campaign for control of Congress. To start, we’ve selected five Senate races for close scrutiny: Arkansas, California, Florida, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. We’ll be kicking off our coverage with a series of columns titled “Three Things…
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Arkansas Senate Race: Three Things You Oughta Know
So here’s the paradox: Americans are working 10 percent fewer total hours than they did before the recession, due to layoffs and shortened workdays, but we’re producing nearly as many goods and services as we did back in the full employment days of 2007. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke called these gains in productivity ” extraordinary ” and unforeseen at a recent Senate hearing. There’s a simple, visceral reason for the gains, Mr
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The Productivity Myth
On Tuesday, Health Access California said state regulators should seek independent reviews of all pending premium increases by California insurers. The call comes after a state-sponsored investigation found errors in how Anthem Blue …
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Consumer Advocacy Group Urges Reviews of Pending Rate Hikes …
With the release date for the Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two fastly approaching, reviews for the devices are starting to come in thick and fast. We have a short review of the Kin Two for you to check out now – although you may find it …
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Microsoft Kin Two: Mini Review is far from kind : Product Reviews Net
David Heath of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund takes a good look at how and why executives have so far avoided jailtime and even prosecution in this crisis. Here’s a big one (emphasis mine): One explanation for the difference may be that key bank regulators – who did the detective work during the S&L crisis and sent more than…
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Audit Notes: No Perp Walks, How Goldman’s Like Penny-Stock Boiler Rooms, WSJ iPad
Monday night, Jon Stewart laid into coverage of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, noting the disaster had dealt “a potentially crushing blow to our nation’s describing-the-size-of-things industry.” He rolled a series of news clips that variously compared the size of the resulting slick to Maryland, Jamaica and Puerto Rico, among other not-particularly-helpful geographic entities….
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A “Slick” Numbers Game
President Obama’s ideological juggling act gets thoughtful treatment from the NYT’s Jackie Calmes. There’s no real news in the piece, but it’s a smart look at the fine line the White House is treading between the free market that makes big business happy and the populism that angry voters want. From the time he took office, Mr
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Audit D.C. Notes: NYT on Obama’s Juggling Act; Mystery Pollster on How It’s Done in the U.K., FT on the Very Long View
NY Mag’s Gabriel Sherman reports that CNN and CBS News are “in advanced negotiations about signing a news-gathering partnership.” Writes Sherman: “The talks are still fluid, which means that executives would speak only on condition of anonymity,” and these fluid talks are also “deep talks,” according to one of Sherman’s unnamed sources. While such talks have happened in…
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CBS And CNN?
The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that exploded on April 20, causing the massive oil spill currently unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, sank two days later, on the fortieth anniversary of Earth Day. Given that a 1969 spill from an oil platform off the coast of Santa Barbara, California spurred the first Earth Day, the rig’s sinking is tragically ironic….
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Crude Coverage at the Times
(Editor’s note: This post is part of the HBR Debate “What Does Business Owe the World?” ) Does business “owe” the world anything? It’s an important question, but one that implies business should do the socially responsible thing out of a sense of duty. This idea is a distraction
Reading the Vanity Fair excerpt of Sarah Ellison’s upcoming War at The Wall Street Journal, on Rupert Murdoch’s takeover of The Wall Street Journal, is, well, dispiriting (and I lived through part of it). Ellison shows in detail how swiftly Murdoch was able to crush his opponents, in this case top editor Marcus Brauchli, with hardly a fight
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"The Victor and the Vanquished"
(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future . The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria , Rakesh Khurana , and Scott Snook .) I recently heard a retired general, a veteran of the Vietnam conflict, quoted as saying the only way he knew what was really happening was to be with his troops in the jungle. He was famously absent from staff meetings, wanting to be in the middle of the action
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Does Leadership Change in a Web 2.0 World?
I’m pleased to host this roving blog carnival, and thrilled suitably humbled to be the first 7 time host. Which is a terrible way to start this, the first Non-Narcissist, Non Personally Aggrandizing MedBlog Grand Rounds, and thanks for putting up with my first theme
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MedBlog Grand Rounds 6:32: The Non Narcissist, Non Personally Aggrandizing Edition
Do you find that company strategy meetings often descend into adversarial position-taking? Many people complain to me that it’s the single biggest block to strategy-making that they encounter. But getting around that block is a lot easier than you might think
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My Eureka Moment With Strategy
What should you do to rehabilitate your general reputation if you are in Goldman Sachs’ executive suite at 200 West Street in New York? Beset by an SEC complaint, a criminal investigation, a Senate grilling, and the resulting loss in two weeks of more than $20 billion in market capitalization, Goldman has assumed a defensive posture. This is so even though the firm just announced $3.46 billion in first quarter earnings.
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Is It Too Late for Goldman Sachs to Play Offense?
Harvard Business School professor Youngme Moon has emerged as one of the world’s compelling voices on the future of strategy, competition, and brands. She teaches one of HBS’s most popular courses , she has written some of its best-selling case studies , and, a few years ago, she co-authored one of the most provocative articles that HBR has published in years.
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Youngme Moon and Why Being Different Makes All the Difference
In order to survive in this modern competitive world we are required to have a good health. Today, a lot of people are going to gyms and many others are joining fitness classes to remain fit and fine. Moreover, some other people are buying fitness videos in which a wide range of exercise are being offered by professional instructors.
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Improve Your Fitness With Dance Videos
Sometimes I sit down to write the introductions to these weekly wrap-ups, and I’ll try to think of some funny way to describe why you or I might not have seen this week’s posts. This week, however, I don’t really have to try to find a reason, because I’ve been frantically launching my Question the Rules course
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Johnny’s Copyblogger Wrap-Up: Week of April 26, 2010