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Two Books to Better Organizational Results

Kevin Eikenberry

He takes five key roles of leaders and explores them in a chapter: Improve vision Ensure accountability Build unity and cooperation Create better decisions Motivate to action Then he opens each section with a list of great questions, and the chapter follows with comments, stories and ideas related to each question.

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People Skills Are Hard Skills - More Than You Know

Building Personal Strength

Copyright 2010. If you ask consultants or trainers to name all the people skills, they’re likely to name fewer than ten, certainly no more than fifteen. But actually, there are several dozen essential people skills. That's a lot of people skills - way more than managers or experts acknowledge. There's nothing "soft" about people skills.

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How Companies Can Take a Stand Against Bribery

Harvard Business Review

Consider that in India in 2016, nearly seven in 10 citizens reported paying a bribe to access basic public services such as public schools, public clinics or hospitals, access to official documents, and utilities, according to Transparency International. and $2 trillion globally.

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Research: Firms Give More Stock Options When They’re Committing Fraud

Harvard Business Review

For example, look at Sherron Watkins, formerly of Enron, and Cynthia Cooper, formerly of WorldCom. Both women helped uncover massive frauds inside their organizations that ultimately cost investors billions of dollars. Research suggests that employees are often in a position to discover and expose wrongdoing in organizations.

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Research: Opposition to Federal Spending Is Driven by Racial Resentment

Harvard Business Review

We began by calculating each state’s ratio of spending to taxes, dividing the average amount of federal money received by each state per year from 2001 to 2010 by the average taxes paid by each state per year over that decade. States with spending-tax ratios below 1.0 Delaware got $0.42 per tax dollar paid). States with ratios above 1.0