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Leaders for Knowledge Work: Types of Organizational Leaders
Maccoby, MichaelBook Chapter HBS-6436BC-EIn knowledge-creating companies, we find three kinds of leaders who have to work together: strategic visionaries, operational implementers, and bridge-builders. This chapter describes the different types of organizational leaders required for knowledge work and shows the role of social character in both facilitating and resisting the changes needed to make organizations more effective and efficient. This chapter is excerpted from "The Leaders We...Starting at €8.20
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The President We Need: Assess Personality Intelligence to Pick the Best Candidate
Maccoby, MichaelBook Chapter HBS-6439BC-ECiting history and using psychological analysis, in this chapter the author describes the qualities of a president who would be able to mobilize Americans to meet the tremendous challenges of our time. Since we can't always predict how a president will act from past behavior, he also lists the questions we should ask candidates to discover whether they have the Personality Intelligence we need in a president. This chapter is excerpted from "The ...Starting at €8.20
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Note on Wind Energy
Maurer, Noel; Vietor, Richard H.K.Case HBS-714021-EEconomicsStarting at €8.20
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Barber of Buenos Aires: Argentina's Debt Renegotiation, Teaching Note
Maurer, Noel; Musacchio, AldoTeaching Note HBS-706062-EEconomicsTeaching Note to (706-034). An abstract is not available for this product.Starting at €0.00
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Afghanistan 2006: Building a Brand New State
Maurer, Noel; Spar, Debora L.; Trumbull, GunnarCase HBS-707033-EEconomicsIn 2006, Afghanistan remains a country in turmoil. It has a newly elected democratic government, a rebounding economy, and considerable economic potential. But the country is still torn by rival factions and dominated by the opium trade. Explores how Afghanistan has been rebuilt since the U.S. invasion of 2001, and what it means to create a modern state. Can state institutions be imposed from the outside? And what are the prospects for democracy ...Starting at €8.20
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Cosan: Thinking Outside the Barrel
Reinhardt, Forest L.; Maurer, Noel; Reisen de Pinho, RicardoCase HBS-710017-EEconomicsThe Cosan case introduces students and executive education participants to political economy and business strategy in the biofuels industry. Cosan, based in Brazil, is the largest grower and processor of sugarcane in the world, and the largest sugar and ethanol producer in Brazil; it is also the world's largest exporter of ethanol for vehicle fuels. Rubens Ometto, Cosan's CEO, has staked out a leading position in the Brazilian ethanol and sugar i...Starting at €8.20
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Filling the Empty Quarter: Saudi Aramco and the World Oil Market, Teaching Note
Maurer, NoelTeaching Note HBS-711075-EEconomicsTeaching Note for 708048.Starting at €0.00
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The Incredible Pros, the Inevitable Cons (HBR Classic) (Spanish version)
Maccoby, MichaelArticle HBS-R0401JLeadership and People ManagementIn the winter of 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom, business leaders posed for the covers of Time, BusinessWeek, and the Economist with the aplomb and confidence of rock stars. These were a different breed from their counterparts of just 10 or 20 years before, who shunned the press and whose comments were carefully crafted by corporate PR departments. Such love of the limelight often stems from what Freud called a narcissistic personality, ...Starting at €8.20
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Why We Follow: The Power of Transference
Maccoby, MichaelBook Chapter HBS-6433BC-EThe most powerful unconscious motivation for following is what Freud first described as transference of childhood images onto a leader. However, as a result of the changing social character, the transferential glue that worked in the past no longer holds followers to organizational leaders and has shifted to a more sibling-like, collaborative dynamic as opposed to a parental, autocratic one. And as organizations become global, leaders are faced w...Starting at €8.20
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From Bureaucratic Followers to Interactive Collaborators: Understanding Two Types of Relationships Between Leaders and Followers
Maccoby, MichaelBook Chapter HBS-6434BC-EThere are two types of followers: bureaucratic and interactive. A key element of the bureaucratic social character is the hardworking obsessive personality that has internalized a dominant father figure from early childhood. For people with an interactive social character, the significant person from the past they project onto a leader is often not a parent but a sibling or close friend. To create collaboration, as a leader you'll have to underst...Starting at €8.20