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Should CEOs Have Term Limits? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Furthermore, last time I checked a CEO can always be removed for lack of performance, or moral and ethical indiscretions, so what purpose do CEO term limits serve other than to disincentivize the CEO? Why would you ever want the person in charge of corporate leadership, vision and strategy to be a lame duck right from the get go?

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Wal-Mart Leadership Sweeps $24 Million of Bribes Under the Rug

Coaching Tip

Is Bribery an Ethical Condition of Doing Business in the Global Economy? John Agno: Can't Get Enough Leadership: Book Notes & Coaching Tips. Robert Hoyk: The Ethical Executive: Becoming Aware of the Root Causes of Unethical Behavior: 45 Psychological Traps that Every One of Us Falls Prey To.

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Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada :: Women on Business

Women on Business

found that the number of women in top executives positions in Canada has fallen over the past year from 37 women in the highest-paying executive jobs in 2006 to just 31 in 2007. Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% are held by women (down from 6.9% in the prior year).

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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The Happiness Advantage: Escaping the Cult of the Average

Strategy Driven

It is also the basis of the research underlying this book. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Masters from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics. In 2006, he was Head Teaching Fellow for ‘Positive Psychology,’ the most popular course at Harvard at the time.

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The Happiness Advantage: Introduction

Strategy Driven

In this book, you will learn not only why the Happiness Advantage is so powerful, but how you can use it on a daily basis to increase your success at work. I begin this book where I began my research, at Harvard, where the Happiness Advantage was born. But I’m getting excited and jumping ahead of myself.

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Foreign Businesses Still Struggle with Beijing, 24 Years After Tiananmen

Harvard Business Review

At the Fortune Global Forum in Beijing in 1999, Levin gave the introduction for Jiang, who was giving the keynote speech. It pulled out of the cinema business in 2006 because China''s regulations prohibited foreign control of those ventures. For good measure, it also canceled plans to publish a book by the outspoken Patten.).