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Leading in a World of Change: Lessons from Downton Abbey

Great Leadership By Dan

Global trade had driven down agricultural prices, eroding the traditional sources of wealth for the great estates and gradually starving the aristocracy of income. You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study. Don’t try to resist technology in the workplace.

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Why Leaders Believe that Tomorrow is a Better Place

In the CEO Afterlife

Easily definable” is the element within visions that facilitates the ethic of simplicity, and doing less, better in this complex world of business. From concerned global warming scientists to doctors without borders , these leaders are dedicated to a better future. Great leaders envision a better place for every stakeholder”.

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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. and spends it in international markets. Ethics Global business Retail'

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Watching Wise Leaders Deal With Complexity

Harvard Business Review

The business environment today has indeed become mindboggling complex due to accelerating globalization and rapid technology changes. John Mackey, co-founder and co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, discovered his noble purpose early in his life. When wisdom provides the ethical compass, intelligence can become even more potent.

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Qualified Black Women Are Being Held Back from Management

Harvard Business Review

At the consultancy where she used to work, Karla Martin, Google ’s Director of Global Business Strategy, watched a partner repeatedly offer the lead role on new business to a white male whom she had previously led on a massive cost-reduction project for a multimillion-dollar client. ” What, or who, will open the door?

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

Harvard Business Review

In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. The forces of lawmaking, jurisprudence and, yes, ethics bring about sufficient transparency, market efficiency and fair business behavior for the conglomerate not to be worth its salt. Global business'

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

After Jeff Immelt threw down the gauntlet for building a global software center, GE faced significant physical, organizational, and cultural challenges. And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. ” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules.