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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

There are plenty of well-known examples throughout the course of history; Aristotle mentored Alexander the Great, Laurence Olivier mentored Anthony Hopkins and Freddy Laker mentored Richard Branson. Human Resources. Prahalad and Henry Mintzberg joined me as silent colleagues. Strategy.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. That value must be measured across all stakeholders.

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