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Great Corporate Strategies Thrive on the Right Amount of Tension

Harvard Business Review

.” We like to call it “strategic stress.” ” The “ Yerkes-Dodson Law ,” which has been used in research that examines the relationship between stress and individual performance, shows that stress increases performance up to a certain point, but not beyond that point.

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business Review

It was supposed to provoke deeper thinking about capitalism and its future, but many early adopters understood the concept as a balancing act, adopting a trade-off mentality. But the TBL wasn’t designed to be just an accounting tool. Changing the System.

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