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Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

Harvard Business Review

Over the course of a couple of decades, meditation has migrated from Himalayan hilltops and Japanese Zendos to corporate boardrooms and corridors of power, including Google , Apple , Aetna , the Pentagon , and the U.S. Visualize positive outcomes : As Daniel Goleman argues , positivity is part and parcel of focused attention.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Your network’s strategic advantage and, therefore, the extent to which it helps you step up to leadership, depends on three qualities: Breadth: Strong relationships with a diverse range of contacts. Breadth: How Diverse Is Your Network? Dynamism: A dynamic set of extended ties that evolves as you evolve.

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Outwitting America's Broken Political System

Harvard Business Review

By looking at these controversies, we can see how to spur America's diverse voters to support the tax and spending policies that, in time, would benefit us all. Consider, for instance, how the diverse, antagonistic interest groups battling over environmental policy reached a "grand bargain" in 1996. How was this possible?

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Case Study: How Would You Save This Farm?

Harvard Business Review

Of course, he could monitor his crops by scanning computer screens back in the farmhouse, but he liked to see and smell the tilled soil, sprouting tendrils, bushy trees, and ripe produce for himself. The siblings were of diverse minds politically, but they agreed that temperatures were rising and weather patterns were becoming more volatile.