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Lessons From the Military: Your Risk is My Risk, Too

Harvard Business Review

Leading people in risky environments is not a game with a reset button, a golden parachute, or a bailout clause. To an outsider, it might seem that the goal of such training and preparation is to provide leaders with an endless series of templates that prescribe exactly what to do to mitigate risk in any given scenario.

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Income Inequality Is a Sustainability Issue

Harvard Business Review

Business by now has a well-developed playbook for dealing with such sustainability issues. Procter & Gamble did this when it recently set a goal that, by 2050, zero per cent of its packaging would wind up in landfills. It’s time to recognize that income inequality is a sustainability issue, too. Yes, Switzerland. They can ….

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The Great Splintering

Harvard Business Review

Today's world of bailouts, golden parachutes, sky-high financial-sector salaries — while middle incomes stagnate — seems to be exactly the reverse. The eye of this perfect storm is extreme income inequality that makes the Glided Age look Leninist: London's the most unequal city in the developed world.