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How to (Inadvertently) Sabotage Your Organization

Some of the biggest threats to organizational performance can and do come from within. In an age when companies are told to be agile, to learn from experiments, and to be entrepreneurial, we are still vulnerable to actions — deliberate or unintentional — that stem from... View Details

Keywords: Management Practices; Effective Managers; Self-awareness; CIA,; Organizational Behavior; Management Practices and Processes; Organizations; Behavior; Performance

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April 2006 (Revised July 2006)
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Managing National Intelligence (A): Before 9/11

By: Jan W. Rivkin, Michael Roberto and Erika Ferlins

Examines the management of national intelligence prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Describes the actions taken by a variety of government agencies, including the FBI, the CIA, the FAA, and the Department of Defense, to detect and deter such attacks. View Details

Keywords: War; National Security; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Crisis Management; Management Systems; Public Administration Industry; United States

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21 Sep 2020
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Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

people could act as its own worst enemy was something the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of the CIA, was keenly aware of when drafting the 32-page field manual in January 1944. Indeed, the manual, which was declassified in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=206138 Managing National Intelligence (A): Before 9/11 Harvard Business School Case 706-463 Examines the management of threat-related national intelligence prior to the terrorist attacks... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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