SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS: TUESDAY INDUSTRY
STRATEGIES FOR COMPETING (AND WINNING)
professor says that leaders must pay close Bryant University Professor Michael A. attention to how they balance competing Roberto will present “Strategies for pressures in their organizations. Competing and Winning in the He also provides insight regarding Global Marketplace” at 4 pm how firms approach learning from on Tuesday, May 8. past failures. Roberto will discuss the Roberto has studied how effecvalue of developing and impletive groups manage the key elementing a clear, articulated ments of conflict and politics. business strategy. Lest one He’s specialized in exploring the worry that this talk will not organizational and interpersonal relate well to real life or may decision-making dynamics that be lacking in energy, it is worth cause large-scale failures, such as noting that he wrote a book in Professor Michael the above-cited Mount Everest 2002 about an ill-fated 1996 A. Roberto. tragedy and the Columbia Space attempt to climb Mount Shuttle accident and how to avoid these Everest. It resulted in the deaths of five problems. climbers, and Roberto relates what hapThe author of Why Great Leaders pened to a framework for understanding, Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing diagnosing, and preventing serious failures for Conflict and Consensus, Roberto helps in many types of organizations. companies and their leaders—especially The former Harvard Business School
senior executives—get the most from their management teams, make strategic decisions more effectively, and build the consensus that successful implementation requires. His core premise is this: a leader can significantly improve an organization’s success by astutely managing the social, political and emotional aspects of decision making, alongside the necessary strategic analysis. Roberto served for six years on the faculty at Harvard Business School and has been a Visiting Associate Professor of Management at New York University’s Stern School of Business. His 2004 article, “Strategic decision-making processes: Beyond the efficiency-consensus tradeoff,” was selected from 20,000 submissions by Emerald Management Reviews as one of the top 50 management articles of 2004.
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