Brook Manville

Put aside all the hypey new frameworks, the listicles, the "10 best things you need" to succeed as a leader today. The critical leadership practices—the ones that will allow a leader to make the biggest impact over time—are already well established. They're about how you relate to others, how you make difficult strategic choices, how you get results, how you...

What's the story behind great decisions? Is decision-making the responsibility of one leader, or should it rest on the shoulders of the collective team? In Judgment Calls, authors Tom Davenport and Brooke Manville share twelve stories of organisations that have successfully tapped the diverse perspectives and deep knowledge of their people to build an organisational decision-making capability—a competence they say...

A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive - if we want it to. Is democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country's system of governance is being 'tested' or is 'under attack'. But is the future of democracy necessarily so dire? In The Civic...