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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. how to keep all her channels operating in concert with one another. About the Author: A cultural anthropologist, Andrea Simon, Ph.D., is president of Simon Associates Management Consultants (SAMC) out of New York.

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How Could I Miss That? Jamie Dimon on the Hot Seat

Harvard Business Review

It's easy to assume that Jamie Dimon, the accomplished CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was simply stonewalling when he claimed that mounting trading losses in his bank were "blown out of proportion" — that he was unaware of how grave the situation really was. But I believe that Dimon literally didn't see perceive disaster unfolding before him.

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The Data Says Climate Change Could Cost Investors Trillions

Harvard Business Review

In a bit of understatement, Simon Dietz of the London School of Economics, the lead author of the report, told The Guardian , “long-term investors…would be better off in a low-carbon world.” Will that asset be operational or retain its value over the normal depreciation period? But on some level they’re absurd.

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How to Become a Healing Leader

Skip Prichard

Although none are perfect, they operate in a way that generates engagement and fulfillment for their employees, delight and loyalty for their customers, positive contributions to their communities and to the environment, and excellent returns for their owners and investors. ” -Tami Simon.

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The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

It's not about a bank. Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? Simon Johnson and numerous others have proposed banks be broken, split, limited. Who's who, mechanism and operator, sovereign — and serf? This scandal isn't about price-fixing.

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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?”