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The May, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Worn out by all the complex leadership development systems in your company? How can we help leaders deal with complexity and respond to it with ethical behavior? Linda Fisher Thornton , from Leading in Context offers Leading Ethically Through Complexity. Look at the purpose of the system and see how you can help.

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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business Review

Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care. Should CEO performance be assessed only on “hard” measures? Should soft measures be part of a CEO’s scorecard?

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation. While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law. The change will become invisible. But typical of disruptive transformation in other industries, the U.S.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors. By June of 2012 we were close to 100. Operations Competitive strategy Technology'

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

In our opinion, which of the two is the more successful depends on the context in which the business operates. Initially these savings are mainly physical, as you stretch the use of tangible assets such as plants, networks and systems. By 2012 as the firm became more focused, this split had evolved to 85% coatings and 7% glass.

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Remembering Ronald Coase

Harvard Business Review

In articles, reviews, and speeches, he spent his entire career — all eighty years or so of it, up to and including one of his last publications, an essay in HBR in December 2012 — admonishing, extolling, and sometimes outright pleading with his colleagues to turn economics into a true social science, one driven by empirical research. (He

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High Frequency Trading: Threat or Menace?

Harvard Business Review

Every systemic market injustice arose from some loophole in a regulation created to correct some prior injustice. I’ve been meaning for a while now to buy and read two critical books on HFT published in 2012, Scott Patterson’s Dark Pools and Sal Arnuk and Joseph Saluzzi’s Broken Markets — both of which Lewis gushingly endorses.