Robert Steven Kaplan
Robert S. Kaplan is president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Previously, he was the Senior Associate Dean for External Relations and Martin Marshall Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is also co-chairman of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a global venture philanthropy firm, as well as chairman and a founding partner of Indaba Capital Management. Before joining Harvard in 2005, Kaplan was vice chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group with responsibilities for Global Investment Banking and Investment Management.
He has written several books on leadership and goal development, including ‘What You’re Really Meant To Do: A Road Map For Reaching Your Unique Potential’ published by Harvard Business Review Press. You can read his most recent essay here.
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Robert Steven Kaplan
Robert Steven Kaplan on The Ownership Process
Leadership is accessible to each of us—today. It requires a process of hard work, willingness to ask questions, and openness to learning.
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Robert Steven Kaplan on The Meaning of Leadership
Leadership is accessible to each of us—today. It requires a process of hard work, willingness to ask questions, and openness to learning.
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Robert Steven Kaplan on the Leadership Crisis
Leadership is accessible to each of us—today. It requires a process of hard work, willingness to ask questions, and openness to learning.
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Robert Steven Kaplan on Building a Regimen of Learning
Leadership is accessible to each of us—today. It requires a process of hard work, willingness to ask questions, and openness to learning.
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Robert Steven Kaplan on Why You Can't Lead Alone
Leadership is accessible to each of us—today. It requires a process of hard work, willingness to ask questions, and openness to learning.
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Robert Steven Kaplan on The Challenges of Leadership
Leadership is accessible to each of us—today. It requires a process of hard work, willingness to ask questions, and openness to learning.
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Robert Steven Kaplan on What You Really Need to Lead
Contrary to popular belief, leadership really can be learned.
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MASTERCLASS: What Does A Leader Do?, with Robert Kaplan
Over a 22-year career at Goldman Sachs, Robert S. Kaplan had the opportunity to run various businesses and to work with or coach numerous business leaders. He says that successful leadership is less often about...
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It's Time to Burst Your Own Bubble and Ask for Advice
It is not a weakness to ask a question or seek advice. I would argue the most insecure people are the ones who do not do that.
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You Need Happiness to Make Money
Extrinsic motivators like status and money tend to be back-end loaded, they tend to be delayed. And so, as Robert Kaplan points out, we need short-term rewards.