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Power Dynamics and the Formation of False Memories in the Workplace

CO2

Diverse Teams : Encourage the formation of diverse teams. Ethical Compass : Ground the organization’s approach in principles that stand the test of time. An ethical compass can guide actions and decisions, reducing the chances of manipulative power dynamics. Source : Kassin, S. M., & Gudjonsson, G.

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Why Today’s Leaders Need to Be Perpetual Learners

Harvard Business Review

Born to immigrant parents in the Australian outback, he would eventually rise to the top of the corporate world, taking over in 2004 as CEO of Dow Chemical. Andrew Liveris likes to defy expectations.

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More of Us Are Working in Big Bureaucratic Organizations than Ever Before

Harvard Business Review

While the companies comprising the S&P 500 reduced their average cost of goods sold by 500 basis points between 2004 and 2014, they made no progress at all in trimming SG&A expenses, which include executive salaries and corporate overhead. It would seem that managerial enthusiasm for all things “lean” has its limits.

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Lessons from the Best Global Brands 2010: Building trust and.

Strategy Driven

which resulted in an increase in brand awareness of 72 percent between 2004 and 2010. To the general public, it has come to epitomize the dysfunction of Wall Street—the greed, risk and lack of ethics that drove profits over the last twenty years, but went relatively ignored until the recent collapse.

Brand 62
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When the Jobs Go Away, They Take Your DNA

Harvard Business Review

Murdock purchased the old mill in 2004 and turned it into what journalist Amanda Wilson describes as "a public–private campus that would host research efforts broadly in his areas of interest." But when it comes to white men, the authors found that they got a bump in performance scores when they were perceived as valuing diversity.

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When Success is Born Out of Serendipity

Harvard Business Review

came home from her job as a diversity consultant at JP Morgan Chase. On this day, though, she had just been asked to describe the "business-case for diversity" for her firm. What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? She was right.