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The 6 Ways Business Leaders Talk About Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Crucially, he concludes that our unconscious mental frames “shape the goals we seek, the plans we make, the way we act, and what counts as a good or bad outcome of our actions.” , has shown how the way we frame such challenges shapes our reasoning and priorities much more than most of us recognize.

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Why I'm Glad I Got Fired

Harvard Business Review

Words like "productivity," "efficiency," and "innovation" are defined by goal posts of our own creation: number of units shipped, revenue and profit, EPS and shareholder return. And while she was right (and I secretly knew it), I kept arguing with her about the goal being the goal, and the goal being about the win.

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