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WOMEN: As we THINK, so we are

Women in the LEAD

It lines up all the laws of nature as they operate both inside and outside of you, to get its way. It mobilizes the many mental powers that you possess, most of which you never consciously use. It draws on the unlimited energy of the mind. Sometimes it succeeds in its purpose immediately.

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May the Force — of Inspiring Leadership — Be with You

The Practical Leader

Less effective managers see “their people” as coin-operated human resources (assets with skin) to be manipulated with money. We’ve known for decades that lack of money can quickly turn people off, but financial incentives aren’t very effective at turning most people on.

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The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? Unless you believe that Abraham Lincoln, too, for a few extra bucks, might have joined Barclays as a Senior Advisor for "Human Resources.". Simon Johnson and numerous others have proposed banks be broken, split, limited.

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