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The January Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2011 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Happy New Year, and welcome to the January, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival! This month's edition is a special "Best of 2011" collection of leadership development blog posts from many of our regular Carnival contributors. Reason: "This was our most read piece of original content published in 2011".

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What Has the Eurozone Learned from the Financial Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

But the real tragedy happened later: a timid recovery during 2010-11 was followed by a second recession starting in the third quarter of 2011, from which Europe did not start recovering until 2015. Yet the place where the crisis had originated, the U.S., avoided the second recession and continued its recovery. What went wrong? Fiscal policy.

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How the U.S. Army Personalized Its Mental Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 So during initial rollout from May 2012 through February 2014, we examined 80,000 BHDP surveys in four military-treatment facilities. Between 2003, when the Iraq war began and the conflict in Afghanistan was two years old, the Army’s volume of mental health care visits tripled, from 1.1

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The Changing Role of Global Leaders

Harvard Business Review

At the same time, as material consumption in emerging economies rises, we also face the fact that, as of the end of 2011, the Earth now contains seven billion people ; by 2050, that global population is projected to reach nine billion. Witness Chris Lazslo's work on sustainable value , and Michael Porter's theorizing about shared value.

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End the Chaos: A Better Approach to Business Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

As she navigated through spreadsheets and dashboard screens — each created by a different person for a different purpose — the only constant was the title of the report, "2012 Actuals." — and come to a consensus-based decision. Our business units are all trying to do the same thing with different tools," she says.

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Ending the Shareholder Lawsuit Gravy Train

Harvard Business Review

billion, or 17% of settlements, in 2012. Wachter wrote in 2011 , a consensus has developed among academics that fraud on the market is “not just flawed, second-best, misdirected, or in need of improvement, but flat-out senseless, mindless, and reasonless.”. As a result, University of Pennsylvania law professors William W.

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The Debt Ceiling and the Art of Being Unreasonable

Harvard Business Review

Some GOP politicians and conservative groups seem to be coming to the same conclusion, although this may have more to do with political considerations than with principle (House Republicans' last visit to the debt ceiling brink, in 2011, turned out to be something of a bust with voters).