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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Avengers: Infinity War

Joseph Lalonde

Bruce Banner discovered this early in Avengers: Infinity War when he asked Tony Stark to call Steve Rogers/Captain America to let him know about the impending threat of Thanos. You are exactly what someone needs: Thor, Groot, and Rocket had gone to Nidavellir to have a new hammer created for Thor. They went their separate ways.

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101 Greatest Quotes About Success and How to Achieve It

Lead from Within

If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. – -Will Rogers. I learned much from my teachers, more from my books, and most from my mistakes. –Anonymous. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. –Sir Francis Bacon. – -Abraham Maslow. Measure twice, cut once.

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Do Financial Regulators Have Principles?

Harvard Business Review

A week later, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the punishment of the New Orleans Saints and its coaches and managers for sanctioning a bounty arrangement that paid players to achieve the goal of injuring opposition players. NFL fans collectively gasped when the hammer came down. How about Commissioner Goodell on 'bounty-gate'?

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

Obama also mentioned Donald Kohn (PhD, Michigan, and a career at the Fed) as a possibility, and the name of Roger Ferguson (PhD, Harvard, and a private sector career plus a past stint as Fed vice chairman) came up a few times in journalists’ speculations. pretty much ever since.

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Why Rational People Can’t Succeed as Economic Forecasters

Harvard Business Review

That sounds a lot like Philip Tetlock’s hedgehogs and foxes , where the people who keep hammering at it and don’t care if their forecasts are wrong are more likely to be wrong. And those who really believe that they’ve got the right method will just explain away all of their failures and just keep pushing their model.

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Should CEOs Get Involved in Politics?

Harvard Business Review

But whether European politicians will be able to hammer out a deal. Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts, also at last night's event, talked with Rotman Dean Roger Martin about the necessity to have an evolving digital strategy in the face of what she called a "mobile metamorphosis."