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How Being The Underdog Can Help Teams To Succeed

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, by positioning oneself as an underdog, it captures the brave and ethical stereotype we attach to underdogs. CEO Reed Hastings acknowledged that the company had previously been regarded with ‘mystique, envy, and fear,’ but in 2011 it was ‘just pity.’ Sporting success.

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Tanya Maslach Joins Women On Business as a Contributing Writer.

Women on Business

 She has been published in leading industry magazines and ghost authored a number of chapters for books published by Linkage, Inc and Pearson Education. include: MacDermid, Sanofi-Aventis, Mattel, Fisher-Price, Raytheon, USDA, Catalina Marketing, Nielsen Media, Starbucks, Fortune Brands, U.S.C., Johnson & Johnson and others.

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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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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. Aldi offers not just low prices, but convenience. Everyone shops at Aldi.

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High Frequency Trading: Threat or Menace?

Harvard Business Review

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

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Jamie Dimon’s Pay Raise Sends Mixed Signals on Culture and Accountability

Harvard Business Review

The announcement made the board seem oblivious to the fact that these issues have been center stage since the beginning of the financial crisis and, in fact, are of signal importance to the whole financial services industry and, indeed, to all major corporations. Boards Ethics Leadership'

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The Big Picture of Business – Fine Wine, Aged Cheese and Valuable Antiques: Part I

Strategy Driven

Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). Care for the industry, the product and the process (a defined Vision). Price is often a deciding factor in buying. Industries Served. Core Values. Professionalism.