July 31, 2014
In 2007, Bob Essner felt justifiably triumphant. He had engineered a successful turnaround of Wyeth, the pharmaceutical giant, after six years of reinventing the company. But even after increasing revenue by 30%—to $20.4 billion—Essner suddenly lost his job. What went wrong?
July 24, 2014
We tend to admire leaders who proclaim, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” But what if that’s not necessarily true?