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What Leaders Can Learn from Sales: Leaders must sell. Maybe not widgets, but ideas. Maybe not extended warranties, but top priorities. Maybe not service contracts, but competitive context. If leaders can't sell their organization on a vision, they will fail. So what can executives learn about selling from the sales staff don the...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, leadership, leader, sales; Blog posts 2008-06-16
J.K.Rowling Wows the Muggles at Harvard: I don't know if Harry Potter would have made a great CEO, but his creator, J.K. Rowling, identifies two traits that young leaders, business or otherwise, can grow by: learning through failure and empathy for the less fortunate. Delivering a speech last week to alumni (and many...; Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Sean Silverthorne, Harvard; Blog posts 2008-06-09
CEO Succession: Does Your Company Have a Clue?: The single most valuable player in almost any company is its chief executive officer. Given that, most firms surely have succession plans ready to go when Mrs. CEO steps off to another opportunity or the Board decides to go in another leadership direction. Right? Um, not so...; Tags: Corporate governance, Leadership, Sean Silverthorne, succession, Joseph Bower; Blog posts 2008-05-22
Is It OK to Lie (Slightly Exaggerate) on Your Resume?: The answer to the above question is, no, of course not. Now that we have that out of the way, let's take a peek at your resume. If I were to look at it, would I find: A previous job description or title that...; Tags: Business ethics, Leadership, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-05-22
Soldiers Pursuing Harvard MBAs: Most students enter Harvard Business School with company experience under their belts. Increasingly, however, students are arriving with experience not from from the business field but from the battlefield. At Harvard Business School, upwards of 90 students have a military background, and applications from both active...; Tags: Team management, Sean Silverthorne, MBA, Scott Snook; Blog posts 2008-05-05

McCain, Clinton, Obama: Who is the Best Leader-Manager?: Great leaders must also be great managers -- vision doesn't implement itself. Do the three presidential candidates have what it takes to translate their demonstrated leadership skills into management acuity? The jury is still out on each of them, says Joseph Nye Jr. in a recent...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Nye, leader, Organizational Skill, leadership; Blog posts 2008-04-30
The Pope as CEO: Jeffrey Immelt and Joseph Ratzinger have more in common than you might think. Immelt, the CEO of GE, and Ratzinger, the CEO also known as pope of the Catholic church, lead global, extremely complex organizations. Both have stellar brands to uphold. Both answer to a higher authority....; Tags: Leadership, Sean Silverthorne, Jeffrey Immelt, Cardinal Ratzinger, leader; Blog posts 2008-04-21
A Green Oath for Business Leaders: Most medical professionals take an oath that charges them to consider the broader implications of their actions on society. Business leaders, of course, take no such oath. Until recently, it was commonly accepted that the only interests they served were those of shareholders and, to a lesser...; Tags: Corporate social responsibility, Business ethics, Corporate law, Leadership, Sean Silverthorne, oath; Blog posts 2008-04-09
The 37th Button On Your Remote Control: Our headline today comes from a line used by innovation expert Scott Anthony in the excellent post Innovation Gone Overboard. His point: Companies often try to freshen their existing products with too much innovation; the 37th button on the remote. But their mistake is your opportunity....; Tags: Leadership, Sean Silverthorne, Scott Anthony, innovation; Blog posts 2008-03-21
How Leaders Go Bad (i.e. Spitzer): Two interesting views on the career suicide of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Writing in BusinessWeek, Harvard Business School professor Bill George fits Spitzer into a failed leadership type he terms "rationalizer." I believe Spitzer's profile closely fits the rationalizer, one who gets so caught...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Spitzer, leadership, leader; Blog posts 2008-03-20
The CEO's New Rules for Driving Strategic Change: Most of us have lived long enough corporate lives to recognize this scenario. CEO announces sweeping strategy shift for company. Managers and employees buy in enthusiastically -- everyone is on board! And the result is... Nothing. Change doesn't take hold....; Tags: Leadership, Sean Silverthorne, paradox, strategy; Blog posts 2008-02-28
Speaking Like Barack Obama: So we all agree -- Barack Obama can deliver the rhetorical goods like few other politicians. Would you like to be able to command a room and deliver a presentation as well as the presidential candidate? What role does charisma play? In a Harvard...; Tags: Leadership, Sean Silverthorne, Peggy Noonan, Steve Jobs, leader, Ronald Reagan; Blog posts 2008-02-25
Learning From Operating System Earth: The earth's biosphere -- the area that supports life -- has been in operation for 3.5 billion years, nourishing an incredible array of life forms. Do you think your business can learn a thing or two about sustainability from an operating system that has worked and evolved...; Tags: operating system, Sean Silverthorne, Biosphere Rules, Unruh, biosphere; Blog posts 2008-02-22
Business Ethics: Pay the Bribe?: Ethical behavior is not a global standard. In some geographies, paying a bribe is not considered an ethical or moral issue -- it's just the cost of doing business. So should you pay the bribe, too? Harvard Business School professor Bill George makes the...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, business ethics, bribe, Bill George, ethics; Blog posts 2008-02-15
Hillary's Lessons in Leadership -- the Bad Ones: The Democratic race for the presidential nomination is by all accounts neck-and-neck. But this wasn't the case two months ago, when Hillary Clinton appeared assured of a spot at the head of the ticket in the November election. Can you say New England Patriots? In politics as...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Hillary, leadership, Hillary Clinton; Blog posts 2008-02-07
Why Yahoo Should Just Say No to Microsoft: For starters, the Microsoft-Yahoo marriage can't work because the resulting mash-up name would be all wrong: MicroHoo. I'm sorry, but that just won't pass regulatory muster. Scott D. Anthony has a far more substantiative argument against the deal, however. Combining two also-rans won't create a viable competitor...; Tags: Leadership, Sean Silverthorne, Scott D. Anthony, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2008-02-05
From Baseball to Accounting: Why We Encourage Unethical Behavior: It may not be right, but we often overlook unethical behavior in others. In a recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Max Bazerman and colleagues explain the psychological reasons why this is so, and what companies can do about it. The paper, See No Evil: When...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, accounting, unethical behavior; Blog posts 2008-01-28
Leading From the Rear: I've just consulted my paper-based(!) American Heritage dictionary on the word lead. The first definition reads, "To show the way to by going in advance." But should leaders also think about directing from the rear? Harvard Business School professor Linda A. Hill is studying...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, leadership, leader, Nelson Mandela; Blog posts 2008-01-22
Does Fear Motivate Employees?: Some bosses lead through empowerment, others through intimidation. When I think of an empowering boss, I think of exemplars such as Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard and "The H-P Way." On the intimidation side, well, let's just say Al Dunlap earned his nickname "Chainsaw". So which...; Tags: Leadership, Sean Silverthorne, Bobby Knight; Blog posts 2008-01-17
Corporate Social Responsibility Doesn't Pay (Usually): Your mama told you that good deeds will be rewarded. But in the emerging area of corporate social responsibility, or CSR, it's far from clear that socially responsible companies are rewarded financially in the marketplace, according to researchers. "While doing good doesn't appear to destroy shareholder value,...; Tags: Business ethics, Leadership, Corporate law, Financial accounting, Sean Silverthorne, CSR, Corporate Social Responsibility; Blog posts 2008-01-09