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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. tool knife from the rig on my body armor and let the pristinely sharp blade slice effortlessly through the tape and label—while being ever so careful to avoid harming whatever wonders lay inside. I drew my standard-issue Gerber?tool

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

After graduating from Princeton in 2001, Donovan Campbell wanted to give back to his country, engage in the world, and learn to lead. I have seen some leaders who are great with the praise but are not sharp in handling the negative. He joined the Marines and led a forty-man infantry platoon during his 3 combat tours. Mark Brouker.

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A Health Mandate That Business Can Live With

Harvard Business Review

And as the health of employees keep declining, their employer-paid health premiums keep rising — 113 percent just since 2001 , in fact — and productivity plummets. Yet emergency room claims, pharmacy claims, hospital claims — all showed a sharp drop among wellness participants versus a steady rise among non-participants.

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Would You Rather Have Brazil’s Economic Problems or America’s?

Harvard Business Review

But in sharp contrast to the situation in Brazil, productivity has been rising faster than wages in the U.S. since 2001 — which lends a helpful perspective to the often downbeat discussion over the economic future here: In fact, productivity growth has been outstripping wage growth in the U.S. Sure enough, it more or less is.

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Build Your Reputation the Rachael Ray Way

Harvard Business Review

Sometimes, it seems they've always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. Broad public exposure won't do you much good if your ideas and skills aren't sharp. It's often hard to deduce how someone becomes known as a leader in their field.

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How HR and Judges Made It Almost Impossible for Victims of Sexual Harassment to Win in Court

Harvard Business Review

The few who do are often confronted with dismissive complaint handlers who treat their experiences as interpersonal problems or instances of poor management rather than sexual harassment. decided by a federal trial court in New York in 2000 and affirmed by a federal appeals court in 2001. Consider the case of Leopold v. Baccarat, Inc.

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When Should Multinationals Move Back into Venezuela?

Harvard Business Review

Our company, Frontier Strategy Group, recently polled 20 Latin America general managers about Venezuela’s contributions to their regional revenues. Part of the decline can be explained by the sharp depreciation of the bolivar, but for the most part it reflects proactive decisions by multinationals to exit the market.

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