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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. Yet corporate leadership still lags as does the percentage of women on U.S. Technology and the Internet are enabling women to work and run businesses more virtually, often from their homes and often with help from angel funding.

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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

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Corporate Empathy Is Not an Oxymoron

Harvard Business Review

As the CEO of a British bank confided at last year’s World Economic Forum, “We all know it’s important to be empathic, but how do I galvanize 48,000 people in my UK operations — most of whom think that empathy is for wimps? The only shock there was that the technology retailer, Carphone Warehouse, did even worse.