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The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

Let me couch this for you in the pedestrian terms of financial hydraulics — the tawdry terms which seem to substitute for thinking in what's become of our thin, shallow economic and political discourse. Simon Johnson and numerous others have proposed banks be broken, split, limited. Who authors the destiny of nations?

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Rescuing Capitalism from Itself

Harvard Business Review

In the United States, the inclination has been to fix capitalism, mainly with proposals for what I call adjectival capitalism: Sustainable Capitalism, Caring Capitalism, Inclusive Capitalism, Conscious Capitalism, and others. We “human resources” have the capacity to act as resourceful human beings.

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What to Do If You Already Hate Your New Job

Harvard Business Review

If you are convinced you are in the wrong job at the right company, get to know people in other departments so that you can ask polite questions about whether people there are happy, how they ended up there, and whether there are positions that might better fit your interests and skills. It just didn’t fit my strengths,” she says.

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How to Handle Difficult Conversations at Work

Harvard Business Review

After all, tough conversations “are not black swans,” says Jean-Francois Manzoni, professor of human resources and organizational development at INSEAD. HBR Guide to Office Politics. ” Proposing options “helps the other person see a way out, and it also signals respect.” Further Reading.

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