Book Review: The Prepared Leader

The Prepared Leader “Crises are inevitable. History, recent evidence, and logic itself tell us that they always happen…Just as one starts to resolve, another is already taking shape. Unfortunately, we are hardwired to neglect this possibility,” say Erika James and Lynn Perry Wooten. Six weeks before the pandemic hit, LynnRead More

Nano Tool: We Are All Leaders Now: Seizing the Leadership Moment

This Nano Tool was previously published in the May 2020 Wharton@Work Newsletter We Are All Leaders Now: Seizing the Leadership Moment Contributed by Michael Useem, William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management and Director of the Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania NanoRead More

The Customer Centricity Playbook

New Book: The Customer Centricity Playbook   Implementing a Winning Strategy Driven by Customer Lifetime Value Peter Fader and Sarah Toms HOW DID GLOBAL GAMING COMPANY ELECTRONIC ARTS GO FROM BEING NAMED “WORST COMPANY IN AMERICA” TO CLEARING A BILLION DOLLARS IN PROFIT? They discovered a simple truth—and acted onRead More

New Book Release: The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap: 6 Steps for Integrating Leadership and Strategy

A new book has come out by longtime Wharton Management Professors Harbir Singh and Mike Useem. The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap: 6 Steps for Integrating Leadership and Strategy draws from in-depth research, one-on-one interviews with CEOs, and their experience teaching today’s executives, Singh and Useem take readers into the offices —Read More

Free eBook: The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook

  The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook by Ian MacMillan and James Thompson by Tracy Simon Does your social enterprise start-up have what it takes to make a difference and become self-sufficient? Ian MacMillan, the Wharton School’s Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Entrepreneurial Management and director of the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurship Center,Read More