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Leadership Is About Alignment

Tanveer Naseer

Working in and living in alignment is difficult because alignment requires you to make decisions and take actions that are in agreement with many goals, ideas and beliefs, some of which may be in conflict. In fact, leaders leave companies when their personal values clash with the corporate values.

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I Got My Strategy from Greenpeace

Harvard Business Review

I'm the CEO of Desso , a European company that makes carpets, carpet tiles and synthetic sports surfaces. A group of us bought the company from the Armstrong Group in a buy-out in 2007. In pursuit of this goal, I committed Desso to becoming 100% Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020. I'm also an owner. We did that.

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How to Have a Year that Matters

Harvard Business Review

To shareholders, to the markets, to "consumers." Lance Armstrong's true north seems to have been trophies — not championships; and the result, I'd bet, is a life that now feels arid, empty, wasted. Here are some pretty good answers, if a snoozer of a year in a cavernous landfill of a life is what you're after.

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