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How to Bring Out the Best in Your Boss

Harvard Business Review

That question prompted me to spend years researching the two types of bosses I now classify as "diminishers", who get less than 50% of the capability of people around them, and "multipliers" who get virtually 100%, as outlined in my May 2010 HBR article. Diminishers are all too common in the workplace.

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How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy

Harvard Business Review

“We are trying to use the index to change corporate behavior,” said Mark Wiseman, chief executive of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, the lead investor in the initiative. Wiseman has helped start Focusing Capital on the Long Term , a new institute that also counts Barclays and Unilever as founding members.

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

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