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HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers Collection

by Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Peter F. Drucker, W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
April 2019
Beginner
816 pages
19h 34m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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The Discipline of Teams

by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith

EARLY IN THE 1980S, Bill Greenwood and a small band of rebel railroaders took on most of the top management of Burlington Northern and created a multibillion-dollar business in “piggybacking” rail services despite widespread resistance, even resentment, within the company. The Medical Products Group at Hewlett-Packard owes most of its leading performance to the remarkable efforts of Dean Morton, Lew Platt, Ben Holmes, Dick Alberding, and a handful of their colleagues who revitalized a health care business that most others had written off. At Knight Ridder, Jim Batten’s “customer obsession” vision took root at the Tallahassee Democrat when 14 frontline enthusiasts turned a charter ...

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