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

Harvard Business Review

And while there are arguable differences between the risks of daily life on Wall Street and those inherent in military combat, there are actually some very striking similarities and lessons to be learned. Do you love what you do and those whom you lead? Do you have skin in the game? Risk has faces and names.

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Income Inequality Is a Sustainability Issue

Harvard Business Review

The business community has learned over the past three decades that, sooner or later, a company’s track record on social issues will affect its business. Business by now has a well-developed playbook for dealing with such sustainability issues. What does the inequality of income have to do with sustainability?

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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.