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The Leadership Skills That Drive M&A Success

Managers, not markets, are the key to success in mergers and acquisitions. [more]

Study: Business Process Management Initiatives Still Immature

The technology-enabled discipline of business process management (BPM) has achieved rapid adoption among large enterprises in the past few years, but success rates have been less impressive. [more]

Subprime Crisis -- A Failure of Leadership?

The recent catastrophically bad decision-making at giant Wall Street firms comes down to one thing, according to Dr E Ted Prince: their leaders' lack of business acumen. [more]

A New Approach to the Talent Hunt

This interview with Peter Cappelli, director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources, offers a new and unusual approach to getting talented employees when you need them -- apply the principles of supply chain management to people. [more]

Meeting Multi-Local Leadership Challenges

As companies discover new business opportunities beyond their current geographic location, executives need to overcome motivational barriers and sharpen cross-border execution skills, as this McKinsey report describes. [more]

How Top-Tier Managers Embrace Paradox

This academic study from the Harvard Business School shows that CEOs of top American and European companies don't adopt an either/or approach to achieving goals. [more]

Procurement: It's a Whole New Chess Game

The rules have changed in the purchasing arena as consolidating supplier markets and soaring commodity prices have transferred negotiating advantages from buyers to sellers. [more]