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Five Leadership Habits All Great Bosses Share
Jun 19, 2017 // Mentions Superbosses by Sydney Finkelstein in an article about tactics managers can use to help their employees grow. “Finkelstein found that the world’s most extraordinary bosses bring out untapped talents in their people,” writes Inc.
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Yet another crisis for Uber: Six vacant executive jobs, and no active CEO
Jun 15, 2017 // Sydney Finkelstein comments on Uber’s current management structure following CEO Travis Kalanick’s leave of absence. The company has six vacant senior positions and no clear executive in charge.
View at The Washington Post
Uber: 14 Bosses, One Corporate ‘Game of Thrones?’
Jun 14, 2017 // “Having two people making joint leadership decisions is a big mistake for companies, but 14 is setting up a war for succession,” Finkelstein says, opinion on Uber’s leadership succession plans following the departure of CEO Travis Kalanick.
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Uber and its CEO try to grow up
Jun 07, 2017 // Quotes Sydney Finkelstein about the reputation of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and the company's attempt to prove it can be a mature business.
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Four Conversations That Boost Employee Engagement
May 31, 2017 // Mentions the book Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent in an article outlining four conversations that leaders should have on a routine basis to promote productivity.
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Why Your Successful Business Failed
May 16, 2017 // Cites the book, Why Smart Executives Fail, written by Sydney Finkelstein which looks at how companies fail when leaders think that their businesses and themselves are untouchable.
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The Case for Letting Your Best People Go
Apr 18, 2017 // Cites the book Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent written by Sydney Finkelstein, in an article about the advantages of letting top talent leave an organization. Finkelstein argues that more people are managing their careers as a series of steppingstones at different companies.
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This is What the Best Bosses are Really Made of
Apr 11, 2017 // Sydney Finkelstein discusses how CEOs are built up to be “unfeeling technocrats,” but the reality is that they are humans too—with all the emotions and biases that come along with it.
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How to Deal with a Chronically Indecisive Boss
Mar 24, 2017 // Quotes Sydney Finkelstein, the Steven Roth Professor of Management, about how reporting to an indecisive boss is unquestionably challenging. "It drives you crazy because without direction, you're not sure what to do," says Finkelstein.
View at Harvard Business Review
Lessons of the Superbosses
Mar 01, 2017 // If you’re transitioning into the role of a leader, an absolute
top priority is to build the strongest team you possibly can.
Why? Because all great, and successful, leaders know that
to succeed you need to surround yourself with the absolute
best people you can.
View at HR People + Strategy Winter 2017 Issue
8 Books Every Leader Needs to Read in 2017
Feb 22, 2017 // Lists Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent by Sydney Finkelstein as one of the best business books to read in 2017.
View at Inc.
6 Reasons Smart People Fail
Feb 17, 2017 // Cites research by Sydney Finkelstein where Finkelstein and his colleagues studied 51 of the business world’s most notorious failures—interviewing CEOs and people from all levels.
View at Inc.
Six Secrets of Superbosses
Jan 31, 2017 //
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Should CEOs Speak Out on What Is Right and Wrong?
Jan 26, 2017 // America is a society at war with itself.
View at Psychology Today
11 interview questions from bosses like Elon Musk and Larry Ellison that seem to have nothing to do with the job
Jan 10, 2017 // Cites an anecdote about Larry Ellison from Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent by Sydney Finkelstein, the Steven Roth Professor of Management. Ellison, executive chairman and CTO of Oracle, made it a point to only hire exceptionally talented employees, and coached his recruiters to ask, “Are
View at Business Insider
The AI That Can Tell Advertisers When You're Willing to Switch Brands
Jan 09, 2017 // Cites a BBC piece written by Sydney Finkelstein, the Steven Roth Professor of Management, where he argued that the carefully curated algorithms that predict our behavior might be making us narrow-minded by limiting our options.
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Women Entrepreneurs, Bosses, and Leaders
Jan 02, 2017 //
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The Top 10 Books on Creative Leadership In 2016
Dec 26, 2016 // Lists Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent by Sydney Finkelstein, the Steven Roth Professor of Management, as one of the top business bestsellers of 2016. (Similar coverage in Business Insider and The Washington Post.)
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Resisting the Tyranny of Algorithms in the New Year
Dec 23, 2016 // Cites a BBC piece written by Sydney Finkelstein, the Steven Roth Professor of Management, in an article that discusses how in order to be creative leaders and hopeful innovators people need to be shocked out of their normal patterns.
View at Inc.
How to Distinguish Yourself as a Superboss
Dec 20, 2016 // Features an interview with Sydney Finkelstein, about the rise of the superboss.
View at Silicon Republic