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The upsides of downward deference
Reiche, Sebastian; Neeley, TsedalArticle 75264Leadership and People ManagementLeaders who find themselves out of their element can get ahead by deferring to subordinates. Here we explain how power can come from letting it go.Starting at €8.20
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Global Business Speaks English (Spanish version)
Neeley, TsedalArticle HBS-R1205HStrategyLike it or not, English is the global language of business. Today 1.75 billion people speak English at a useful level--that's one in four of us. Multinational companies such as Airbus, Daimler-Chrysler, SAP, Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, and Microsoft in Beijing have mandated English as the corporate language. And any company with a global presence or global aspirations would be wise to do the same, says HBS professor Tsedal Neeley, to ensure good commu...Starting at €8.20
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Global Teams That Work (Spanish version)
Neeley, TsedalArticle HBS-R1510DStrategy(1) Structure. If a team is made up of groups with different views about their relative power, the leader should connect frequently with those who are farthest away and emphasize unity. (2) Process. Meeting processes should allow for informal interactions that build empathy. (3) Language. Everyone, regardless of language fluency, should be empowered to speak up. (4) Identity. Team members must be active cultural learners and teachers to understa...Starting at €8.20
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Greg James at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A) (Spanish version)
Neeley, Tsedal; DeLong, Thomas J.Case HBS-415S01StrategyGreg James, a global manager at Sun Microsystems, Inc., sets out to meet with his entire 43-member customer implementation team spread across India, France, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America to resolve a dire customer system outage as required by a service agreement. Rather than finding a swift resolution to the rapidly escalating customer situation that motivated his trip, he finds himself facing distributed work, global...Starting at €8.20
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Chapter One: The New CIO
Austin, Robert D.; Nolan, Richard L.; O'Donnell, ShannonBook Chapter HBS-1000BC-EInformation Technologies"The Adventures of an IT Leader" invites readers to "walk in the shoes" of a new CIO, Jim Barton, as he spends a difficult year learning effective information technology leadership, sidestepping the pitfalls that make the CIO job the most volatile, high-turnover job in the business. This chapter joins Jim, the former head of Loan Operations, at the beginning of his journey as he assumes his new role as CIO of a fictional midsize financial service...Starting at €8.20
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Chapter Seven: The Runaway Project
Austin, Robert D.; Nolan, Richard L.; O'Donnell, ShannonBook Chapter HBS-1006BC-EInformation Technologies"The Adventures of an IT Leader" invites readers to "walk in the shoes" of Jim Barton, the new CIO of the fictional IVK Corporation, as he spends a difficult year learning effective information technology leadership, sidestepping the pitfalls that make thStarting at €8.20
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Chapter Ten: Crisis
Austin, Robert D.; Nolan, Richard L.; O'Donnell, ShannonBook Chapter HBS-1009BC-EInformation Technologies"The Adventures of an IT Leader" invites readers to "walk in the shoes" of Jim Barton, the new CIO of the fictional IVK Corporation, as he spends a difficult year learning effective information technology leadership, sidestepping the pitfalls that make thStarting at €8.20
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Chapter Thirteen: Emerging Technology
Austin, Robert D.; Nolan, Richard L.; O'Donnell, ShannonBook Chapter HBS-1012BC-EInformation Technologies"The Adventures of an IT Leader" invites readers to "walk in the shoes of Jim Barton", the new CIO of the fictional IVK Corporation, as he spends a difficult year learning effective information technology leadership, sidestepping the pitfalls that make the CIO job the most volatile, high-turnover job in the business. In this chapter, Barton and his team realize that they must formulate a policy around the company's social media strategy and devis...Starting at €8.20
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Chapter Nineteen: Looking Forward
Austin, Robert D.; Nolan, Richard L.; O'Donnell, ShannonBook Chapter HBS-1018BC-EInformation Technologies"The Adventures of an IT Leader" invites readers to "walk in the shoes" of Jim Barton, the new CIO of the fictional IVK Corporation, as he spends a difficult year learning effective information technology leadership, sidestepping the pitfalls that make the CIO job the most volatile and high-turnover job in the business. Surprising everyone, Barton not only survives a tumultuous year in the job, but excels enough to garner several attractive job o...Starting at €8.20
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Epilogue
Austin, Robert D.; Nolan, Richard L.; O'Donnell, ShannonBook Chapter HBS-1019BC-EInformation TechnologiesIT has changed not only the way we work and conduct business, but also how we (and our customers) play, how we consume, and how we educate our next generations. And yet the IT phenomenon, so evident in the expenditures of every organization, has not yet achieved management attention equal to other areas, such as finance, marketing, operations, and human resources. The main problem according to the authors is the absence of systematic frameworks t...Starting at €8.20