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Closeout for 8.5.11

LDRLB

Every friday we review the posts from LeaderLab contributors that has appeared on this blog and elsewhere online. We dabbled our hand in marketing as Tim Vanderpy reviewed UnMarketing. We reposted a teaser video for Clayton Christensen’s new one The Innovative University. Click Here to Help Our Research.

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The IRS Just Sent Me $160,000. Can I Keep It?

Harvard Business Review

Although this only concerns my personal finances, the fact that I serve as editor in chief of Harvard Business Review means I've implicitly accepted not only responsibility for defending the integrity of the institution, but also for having integrity myself. Life is full of ethical dilemmas.

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When Good People Work for Bad Companies

Harvard Business Review

After earning a master's degree in ethics at Yale, Gregor became the first director of corporate consciousness for Burlington, Vermont-based Seventh Generation , the nation's leading manufacturer of environmentally-friendly household and personal care products. I don't any easy answers, and am still working out my own balancing act.

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Create a Life with Purpose

Harvard Business Review

Clay Christensen , Harvard Business School professor and best-selling author, discusses his new book and explains why it's essential to follow your commitments 100% of the time. For more, read his article, How Will You Measure Your Life?

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LeBron on Ice, or the Fallacy of the Corporate Superstar

Harvard Business Review

His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. He would have to train in completely different ways, and unlearn many of the things that have allowed him to succeed at his chosen sport. That's no dig on James.

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How to Build a Meaningful Career

Harvard Business Review

Ethics Feature. Christensen. Find people who are doing what you think you want to do and ask them lots of questions. Listen carefully and critically , so that you don’t just hear what you want to hear. Further Reading. How Will You Measure Your Life? How business and management theories can help people lead better lives.

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When Success is Born Out of Serendipity

Harvard Business Review

My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones?