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  • 2011
  • Book

True North Groups: A Powerful Path to Personal and Leadership Development

By: Bill George and Doug Baker
All too often, we find ourselves forced to confront life's challenges on our own. What we need is an intimate group with whom we can examine our beliefs and share our lives. For the past thirty-five years, Bill George and Doug Baker have found the answer in True North... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Opportunities; Personal Characteristics
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  • 05 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

Leadership with purpose: Redefining success and impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019)

cutting-edge insights to drive change more effectively. What I didn’t expect was how profoundly the program would shift my approach to leadership and purpose. HBS taught me to think beyond processes and frameworks, focusing instead on... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 08 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Leading Amidst Competing Technical and Institutional Demands: Revisiting Selznick’s Conception of Leadership

Keywords: by Marya L. Besharov & Rakesh Khurana
  • 06 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track

leadership in the process. Through True North Groups, leadership development can be transformed, enabling companies to develop many inner-directed leaders who will bring View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • Blog Post

5 Leadership Lessons from the First Year at HBS

that it is impossible to take parts of styles that work for others and hope you are creating an optimal model for yourself. Instead, the best type of leadership is one that is most authentic to you. Taran... View Details
  • 12 Jan 2018
  • Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

Well, at the time, I was introducing my new course Authentic Leadership Development, and one of the things we talk a lot about are crucibles that people face. Dr. King at this time was facing perhaps the... View Details
  • Teaching Interest

Overview

I am passionate about developing leaders through education. I teach organizational behavior and leadership to MBA students. I have taught the core organizational behavior class at the Harvard Extension School for four semesters, where I three times won the “Highest... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Leadership; Performance Appraisal; Performance Management; Culture; Motivation; Prosocial Motivation; Manufacturing Industry; Consulting Industry
  • Web

Leadership with purpose: Redefining success and impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019) - Recruiting

was how profoundly the program would shift my approach to leadership and purpose. HBS taught me to think beyond processes and frameworks, focusing instead on authenticity and the values that define impactful... View Details
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Picture This

with four different styles, for example, by mixing and matching photo personalization and an artist’s design,” she says. “Consumers aren’t as interested in buying something at the mall that was mass-produced; they want the experience of View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; leadership; manufacturing; acquisitions; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 2008
  • Book

Finding Your True North: A Personal Guide

By: Bill George, Andrew McLean and Nick Craig
Based on Bill George's bestselling book True North, this personal guide offers leaders a comprehensive method for identifying their unique “True North.” The book offers methods for personal reflection and includes targeted exercises that help leaders hone in on the... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Personal Characteristics
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  • 20 Jul 2015
  • News

The Phoniness of Donald Trump

  • 10 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

increasing diversity and inclusion, encouraging everyone to bring their individuality and unvarnished opinions with them is a good start. Gino, who studies innovative leadership and wrote a 2018 book on successful rulebreakers, Rebel... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Steady as She Goes

executive leadership committee, it was not normal for someone to say ‘Can we start the meeting at nine o’clock, because I want to drop the kids at school?’ I have worked to normalize that and to build a culture where people are... View Details
Keywords: April White; COVID-19; change management; leadership; women; grocery stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 07 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West

and negative experiences, they gain compassion for themselves and authenticity in relating to the world around them. Q: How does the work you are doing in this area align with your concept of "True North"? A: In our work on True... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

    DISCOVER YOUR TRUE NORTH

    The Leadership Classic, Discover Your True North, expanded for today's leaders

    Discover Your True North is the best-selling leadership classic that enables you to become an authentic leader by discovering your True North.... View Details

    • Career Coach

    Meredith Hamilton

    Home for Children (EVP & COO), Jumpstart (Strategy & Operations SVP), Citizen Schools (HBS Leadership Fellow), Teach for America (Summer Intern), The Guidance Center (Fundraising Manager), Prudential (Management Associate) View Details
    Keywords: Education; Entrepreneurship; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Government; Real Estate; Social Enterprise

      Joshua D. Margolis

      Joshua Margolis is James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration and the Unit Head for the Organizational Behavior unit. He is also Faculty Chair of the Program for Leadership Development. His research and teaching revolve around leadership... View Details

      Keywords: furniture; health care; insurance industry; nonprofit industry; pharmaceuticals
      • July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
      • Case

      Rosalind Fox at John Deere

      By: Anthony Mayo and Olivia Hull
      Rosalind Fox, the factory manager at John Deere’s Des Moines, Iowa plant, has improved the financial standing of the factory in the three years she’s been at its helm. But employee engagement scores—which measured employees’ satisfaction with working conditions and... View Details
      Keywords: Agribusiness; Change Management; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Gender; Race; Engineering; Geographic Location; Globalized Markets and Industries; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Style; Management Teams; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence; Status and Position; Trust; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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      • 2017
      • Interviews

      Laura Morgan Roberts (1)

      • 08 Dec 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      You Won't Make It If You Fake It

      Maybe the “fake it till you make it” leadership approach will work for a while, but it will eventually catch up with you. Contrast the fake it approach with that of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, an open and transparent View Details
      Keywords: by Bill George