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Why Finance Needs More Humanity, and Why Humanity Needs Finance

Harvard Business Review

Mihir Desai, professor at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, argues for re-humanizing finance. He says the practice of finance, with increasing quantification, has lost touch with its foundations. But he says finance can be principled, ethical, even life-affirming. Download this podcast.

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Better to Give than to be Grateful :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Click here for your free download of the Red Zone Marketing Action Plan template that we use with clients to help plan, visualize and hold everyone accountable for marketing activities. So, in keeping in this spirit and following those much wiser than me, I offer to you today a holiday gift that I hope will help with your marketing in 2011.

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Should CEOs Have Term Limits? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Furthermore, last time I checked a CEO can always be removed for lack of performance, or moral and ethical indiscretions, so what purpose do CEO term limits serve other than to disincentivize the CEO? Why would you ever want the person in charge of corporate leadership, vision and strategy to be a lame duck right from the get go?

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Bonus or No Bonus? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I personally dont feel bonuses work to promote a good work ethic. salary X, if certain milestones are met on schedule and also tied work ethic and thorough performance-both field and paperwork… a person would have the ability to increase their pay by X. As for our staff, they all received an equal bonus for their efforts.

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Interns to the Rescue! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

For more information on how you can utilize interns in your business or organization, check out my friends Julie Braun and Michelle Demers, the Dynamic Duo of Super Interns, and make sure to download their free ebook “251 Super Internship Projects.” For more information, go to www.SuperInterns.com.

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Loyalty vs. Tenure | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Reward talent, innovation, loyalty, attitude, creativity, work ethic, contribution, and leadership ability…not tenure. often evoke feelings of hatred at the mere mention of their name. The bottom line is this…as an employer you need to possess an extreme bias toward performance.

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8 Traits of Ineffective Leaders | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

When we view our responsibilities three-dimensionally as if through a prism that simultaneously allows us to keep focused on the MRC concepts, we will make better mission-focused decisions that are based upon how our resources must be deployed to accomplish them, and we will operate in ethical ways that resonate with our partners and employees.

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