Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

Podcast: @jamesstrock interviews Richard Norton Smith author of An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford If AI Is Reading Your Mind, What Will It Learn?

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Leading Blog

MAY 9, 2023

Richard Norton Smith’s extraordinary biography of Gerald Ford, An Ordinary Man , pulls together multiple perspectives to give essential insights into Ford’s thinking and leadership. Ford had moral authority because he lived his values. A leader with the courage to do what needed to be done despite the consequences.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

While the estimated pay ratios Kiatpongsan and Norton found did differ based on, say, political leanings, the ideal pay ratios were similar across the board: Note, for example, that respondents who “strongly agreed” that differences in income were too large estimated a much larger pay gap between CEOs and unskilled workers (12.5:1)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Individual rewards—ranging from pay-per-performance to bonuses—have been shown to be detrimental to employee morale and productivity. Norton, and Elizabeth W. Compensation Morale' But evidence from an array of scientific studies says otherwise. We tested this very idea , with our collaborators Lara B. Aknin, Michael I.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

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.

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