Thought Leadership: Being a Manager

Your 3 Imperatives as a Manager
A chapter from Being the Boss by Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback

Are you the boss you need to be? Most managers stop making progress because they don't understand how to become a great boss or where they currently stand in comparison with where they should be. Learn how to assess yourself against what's required, clearly understand your strengths, where you need to make progress, and how to move forward.

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Leadership for Senior Executives

Dates and Fees

  • May 20–24, 2012 (San Francisco, California, U.S.)

Exploring the many ways personal leadership style can affect a business, this program empowers you to lead with vision and confidence. You will improve your capacity to manage, drive employee and customer satisfaction, and accelerate profits as you examine the role leadership plays in the performance of your team and in your own development. You emerge with strategies and insights that help you unleash a leadership culture across your organization.

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Leading with Impact

Dates and Fees

  • July 2–6, 2012 (Hampshire, England)

Emphasizing introspection and personal discovery, this program enables you to fulfill and expand your emerging leadership potential. Through self-assessment tools and experiential learning, you examine your strengths and weaknesses while exploring best practices of extraordinary leaders. Delivering proven techniques and greater confidence, the program helps you manage your team more effectively and lead in the midst of adversity and change.

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Leadership Best Practices

Dates and Fees

  • April 1–5, 2013 (HBS Campus)

  • $11,250

Examining the leadership best practices that differentiate world-class companies, this program helps you become a stronger, more impactful leader. Join senior executives to discuss the latest thinking on leadership, while exploring topics ranging from organizational transformation and corporate change to authentic leadership and personal leadership development. You will be prompted to examine your approach and consider new leadership strategies.

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A New Path

Dates and Fees

  • April 28–May 3, 2013 (HBS Campus)

  • $6,500

This unique program helps professional women refocus their careers, sharpen competitive skills, and explore new career directions. Whether you are thinking of reentering the workforce or are looking to reenergize your career after years of working in the same field, A New Path will help you establish a well-defined career strategy. You will create an action-oriented plan that helps you make career decisions and achieve professional and personal fulfillment.

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The Women's Leadership Forum

Dates and Fees

  • May 2013 (HBS Campus)

  • $9,500

Bringing together an elite group of successful women executives, this premier forum focuses on the link between innovation and leadership. As you explore leadership best practices and exchange ideas with HBS faculty and peers from around the world, you acquire new strategies for creating environments that foster and sustain innovation. You will return to work prepared to inspire your colleagues, act with confidence, and lead with lasting impact.

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Programs, dates, fees, and faculty are subject to change.

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