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Leadership: from Vision to Implementation

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Having analysed Barclays’ evolution in the 1980s and 1990s as a universal bank and its withdrawal in late 1997 from investment banking, we turn now to the critical role of leadership. I use that term in two senses: First, having the vision to understand what strategies are likely to be successful in the turbulent environment of financial services; and, second, developing the organizational infrastructure to implement those strategies.

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Rogers, D. (1999). Leadership: from Vision to Implementation. In: The Big Four British Banks. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27760-5_6

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