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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

When does pharmaceutical pricing become price gouging? One of the managers involved in the affair was an idealistic young man named Dennis Gioia, who went into the auto industry to make a contribution to society. Employees and managers in the autonomy stage are ready for mature leadership.

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To P or Not to P: Does Your Purpose Provoke Passion?

The Practical Leader

Many more people are searching beyond a job or career to find a calling. McGill University management professor and author, Henry Mintzberg said, “an organization without human commitment is like a person without a soul: Skeleton, flesh, and blood may be able to consume and to excrete, but there is no life force.”

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. We found that, for pharmaceutical industry CEOs, there is a statistically significant relationship between a CEO’s specialist background and the firm’s performance.

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Elder Care, Child Care, and the Struggles of Chinese Women

Harvard Business Review

Mao Zedong may have famously proclaimed that "women hold up half the sky," but many of today's Chinese career women feel their high-flying ambitions have feet of clay. Yeah, we hold up half the sky," recently quipped a female senior manager for a multinational pharmaceutical company, "but there are 5,000 years of history dragging us back.".

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7 Tricky Work Situations, and How to Respond to Them

Harvard Business Review

Minutes or days later, a colleague or manager misrepresents your point as their own, restates it identically, and is praised and credited for making it. gives you the upper hand when addressing the matter with a manager. gives you the upper hand when addressing the matter with a manager. Katie didn’t skip a beat.

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. High-potential future leaders.