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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Avengers: Infinity War

Joseph Lalonde

You can survive more than you think: Avengers: Infinity War brings back the hilarious team of the Guardians Of The Galaxy: Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Groot (Vin Diesel), Drax The Destroyer (Dave Bautista), Mantis (Pom Klementieff), Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper), and Star-Lord. They see the talents of others and help them develop those talents.

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A Great Negotiator’s Essential Advice

Harvard Business Review

Develop the facts of the case jointly with your counterparts. Negotiation is not usually an individual sport. Build a common fact base. In many disputes, disagreement arises less from a clash of interests and more from disparate understandings of the situation. Think outside your own box.

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. When we asked them about why they care about sustainability, they did mention the business case we’ve all been hammering home for years — and they do believe it.

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How Rudeness Stops People from Working Together

Harvard Business Review

Upbeat Music Can Make Employees More Cooperative. As a mathematical model developed by Yale psychologists Adam Bear and David Rand shows , people who are typically surrounded by jerks learn intuitively to be selfish and to not deliberate over their actions. How to Handle a Colleague Who’s a Jerk When the Boss Isn’t Around.

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