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Are You Taking Care of Busyness and Working Overtime?

The Practical Leader

Gallen in Switzerland, and Jochen Menges, lecturer in human resources and organizations at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School. Author Adam Waytz is a psychologist and the Morris and Alice Kaplan Chair in Ethics and Decision Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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Leading Job Growth in the Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

Although it has no natural resources, Singapore has succeeded by investing large portions of its public budget in education, a strong civil service, and the development of great leaders, proactively moving its economy away from basic manufacturing, to higher value, technology-based manufacturing, then to knowledge-based R&D sectors.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Prior to this article's publication, academics had talked for decades about the resource-based view of the firm. Edith Penrose, for example, published The Theory of the Growth of the Firm , generally considered the first book with a resource-based argument, in 1959. How Ethical Are You? So what did Hamel and Prahalad add?

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Capitalism's Mea Culpa; Humanism's Opportunity?

Harvard Business Review

is about sharing resources, and no wonder. He knows that in the face of rising population numbers, oil prices and Co2, food resources will be increasingly scarce. It's about survival in an increasingly resource-stressed world. Joseph is on the cutting edge, but not just of raspberries. Joseph's M.O. It is human. It is real.

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The Big Picture of Business: Leadership for the New Order of Business Part 1

Strategy Driven

It occurred to me that this was a talent to watch, as I was already familiar with established composers such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and others. A career is all about devoting resources to amplifying talents and abilities, with relevancy toward a viable end result.

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The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

Unless you believe that Abraham Lincoln, too, for a few extra bucks, might have joined Barclays as a Senior Advisor for "Human Resources.". Michael Porter has suggested that shared value be the linchpin the economy is held together by. Yet on such a norm of easy shoulder-shrugging compromise nothing great can be built.

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