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Don’t Just Coach Your Employees—Teach Them
May 28, 2025 // Sydney Finkelstein joins the HBR on Leadership podcast to encourage leaders to act like teachers—meeting regularly with employees to teach lessons in professionalism, craft, and life.
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3 Questions for Coursera’s New CEO, Greg Hart
May 20, 2025 // A feature interview with Coursera CEO Greg Hart mentions “Strategic Leadership: Impact, Change, and Decision-Making Specialization” taught by Sydney Finkelstein as one of the company’s most popular courses.
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You Don’t Just Need Courage to Try—but Humility to Learn When You Fail
Mar 18, 2025 // Mentions research by Sydney Finkelstein illustrating that as people move into higher-ranking roles, they often take less responsibility for failures or deflect blame, and the repercussions of that behavior.
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Why Expertise Can Make You a Less Effective Leader
Jan 01, 2025 // Features insights from Sydney Finkelstein on how expertise can hinder leadership by stifling curiosity and fostering overconfidence, and how instead leaders should focus on becoming more humble and open-minded through research-backed strategies.
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How to Work for a Boss Who Always Changes Their Mind
Sep 27, 2024 // Features insights from Sydney Finkelstein on the difficulties of reporting to and navigating a working relationship with an indecisive boss. “It is an unquestionably challenging and frustrating situation,” Finkelstein says.
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3 Reasons Good Managers Make Bad Decisions—And How to Avoid Them
Jun 30, 2023 // Highlights Sydney Finkelstein and his book Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it From Happening to You.
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Features Sydney Finkelstein in an article offering strategies for making tough decisions.
Feb 10, 2023 // “The good news is that the best micromanagers are often the best talent developers,” says Sydney Finkelstein in an article about how business leaders can properly harness micromanagement tendencies. “Their attention to detail, their intimate knowledge of the business, and their deep involvement in what’s going on…
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How to Overcome Decision Fatigue
Feb 02, 2023 // Features Sydney Finkelstein in an article offering strategies for making tough decisions.
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Jeff Bezos’ Leadership Style Propelled Him to Become One of the Richest Men in the World. Here’s What You Can Learn from It.
Dec 28, 2022 // Quotes Sydney Finkelstein in an article examining Jeff Bezos' distinct leadership style. "His unwritten philosophy is courage and curiosity, which I found to be to the real hallmark of pretty much every great leader that I work with or study," Finkelstein says.
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Dissent Is Not Disloyalty. Employers Must Accept This—The Earlier the Better
Dec 09, 2022 // Highlights Sydney Finkelstein and his book Why Smart Executives Fail in an article exploring the relationship between employee loyalty and disagreement with leadership decisions.
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‘Black Swans’ and ‘Perfect Storms’: Wall Street Reaches for Cliché to Excuse Your Withered 401(K)
Jul 07, 2022 // Sydney Finkelstein quoted in an article examining the use of clichés and buzzwords by business executives to explain the current economic climate.
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The Secrets of Superbosses And How You Can Become One
Jul 04, 2022 // Sydney Finkelstein joins the Leading The Future of Work with Jacob Morgan podcast to discuss his book Superbosses and what it takes for a business leader to become a superboss.
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The Biggest Challenges for a Hybrid Workplace—and How to Overcome Them
May 17, 2022 // “Be smart about how you use the time you’ve got in person,” Sydney Finkelstein says in an article exploring how business leaders can best approach a hybrid workplace.
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Musk-Twitter Board Fight Is a Watershed Moment for Corporate Governance, Says Dartmouth’s Finkelstein
Apr 18, 2022 // Sydney Finkelstein joins CNBC to discuss Elon Musk’s attempt to overtake Twitter.
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Starbucks Needs a Better Leadership Plan than Howard Schultz
Mar 29, 2022 // Features Sydney Finkelstein in an article examining the potential ramifications of Howard Schultz returning as CEO of Starbucks.
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Catie Griggs’ Unconventional Road to Mariners
Mar 19, 2022 // A feature story about Catie Griggs D’03, T’09, president of business operations for the Seattle Mariners. “She doesn’t show up other people. She's modest in that way; humble, really, which is a very important criteria characteristic for a leader,” Sydney Finkelstein says of Griggs.
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How to Find Innovative, Practical Business Schools
Mar 11, 2022 // How to Find Innovative, Practical Business Schools
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A Journey in Organizational Resiliency: Governance
Oct 11, 2021 // Mentions research by Sydney Finkelstein in an article about the importance of governance to establish a resilient company.
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How to Manage Managers
Jul 14, 2021 // Features Sydney Finkelstein in an article examining how business leaders should approach managing a team of managers.
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Who Can Defeat an Undefeatable Leader?
Jul 02, 2021 // Mentions research by Sydney Finkelstein in an opinion piece examining the pitfalls that can befall powerful business leaders.
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