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Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsider Shaped American Business Leadership

  • by Anthony Mayo, Nitin Nohria, and Laura G. Singleton

Explores who made it to the top of Corporate America in the twentieth century and what their experiences mean for the next generation of business leaders.

In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the 20th Century

  • by Anthony Mayo and Nitin Nohria

Great business leaders posses "contextual intelligence"-a profound ability to understand the zeitgeist of their times and harness it to create successful organizations.

 

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High Potentials Leadership Program
Executive Education
May 31-June 5, 2009

Being designated a rising star can have complicated implications. How do you sustain momentum when addressing unfamiliar challenges?

 

LINDA HILL IN FORBES MAGAZINE:

Linda Hill discusses the impact and effectiveness of new managers in an article for Forbes magazine.

LINDA HILL: WHERE WILL WE FIND TOMORROW'S LEADERS?

A conversation with Linda Hill about the future of leadership in the 21st century from the the HBS Centennial Issue of the Harvard Business Review.

20th Century Great American Business Leaders

Database of 1000 Business Leaders

Zeitgeist Leadership

Zeitgeist Leadership
Harvard Business Review
October 2005

The contextual factors that shaped the 20th Century brought to life with stories of the men and women who led their companies to greatness.

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