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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

Finally, leaders must develop a culture that communicates the organization’s vision and strategy. The Mafia, Hells Angels, and the Sinaloa Cartel had different missions and strategies, and so their leaders developed unique corporate governance schemes. Then these individuals’ performance must be measured and rewarded.

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Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company. For example, in finance courses students learn that profitability and return on assets is the measure of business success. Personal Integration.

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Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

Profits that are received at some future point are discounted by the real cost of finance and any appropriate risk premium. The highest estimate that we could find from recent, peer-reviewed studies was a 1.08 percent increase in per capita growth after the overthrow of an autocrat.

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