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The Dangers of Hiring a Nice CEO

Harvard Business Review

Professors Steve Kaplan at the University of Chicago and Morten Sorensen at Copenhagen Business School have analyzed over 2,600 ghSMART assessments of candidates for C-suite positions and concluded that boards often overweight amicability in their hiring decisions. But they rarely recognize the full cost of their behaviors.

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Two myths about creativity underlie the squeamishness: First, that creativity is morally, ethically good. So, by definition, creativity is morally neutral. Created by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in the 1990s, this system for assessing organizational performance builds on, but goes way beyond, traditional accounting methods.