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

Harvard Business Review

Third, character matters just as much as any knowledge or skills acquired from training and education. Leading people in risky environments is not a game with a reset button, a golden parachute, or a bailout clause. We spend a lot of time and energy training military units and their leaders to properly mitigate risk.

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Income Inequality Is a Sustainability Issue

Harvard Business Review

As an example, last March, 68% of Swiss voters approved a measure giving shareholders the right to block executive and Board pay packages, outlawing “golden parachutes,” and increasing transparency regarding loans and retirement packages, according to the Wall Street Journal. Yes, Switzerland.

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Can You Be Too Rich?

Harvard Business Review

The best education, the best car, the best champagne, and so on. There is a purpose to their work, which requires long years of training and discipline, to which society rightly assigns a steep value. It seems to me, then, there is such a thing as too rich, at least for people who wish to call themselves free. How rich is too rich?