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Recognizing Habits That Undermine Goals

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Minds at Work in Cambridge, Mass, founded by Robert Kegan, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Lisa Lahey, a development psychologist who also teaches at Harvard, guides executives through a step-by-step process of self-examination and gradual behavioral change. The program is based on the idea that, like dieters with a weakness for doughnuts , many executives want to change but behave in ways that impede their progress.

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What All Major Depressions Have in Common

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Signs of deflation are visible but the public will be fooled. Deflation requires a precondition: a major societal buildup in the extension of credit (and its flip side, the assumption of debt). -- Conquer the Crash , 2nd edition (p. 88). Has the United States met that precondition? Well, consider that total credit market debt as a percent of U.S. gross domestic product was. 280 percent in 1929 at the start of the Great Depression. 380 percent in 2008.

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