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Society Needs a Leadership Paradigm Shift

Leading Blog

In countless cases, leaders have missed opportunities to tap into the enormous potential associated with the development of character to create innovation and excellence. It is critical to understand that character is not just about morals and ethics but, in its fullest form, about human flourishing through better judgments and well-being.

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When Good Employees Do Bad: Six Surprising Behaviors that May Precede a Scandal

Leading Blog

For example, if a company claims it welcomes innovation and risk taking, but then only rewards employees who toe the company line and reinforce the status quo, sooner or later people will simply stop asking questions, innovating, and stretching themselves. Instead, they will conform in order to please their bosses. Excessive optimism.

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The Value of Vision Series – Tanvi Gautam

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

You see, in storytelling, as noted by Aristotle, there must be logos (logic), ethos (ethics, credibility, values) and pathos (emotions). Ask them about the vision, and you were likely to get figures of ROI, market share, and other statistical facts and figures that leave you cold. One might even say too data-driven.

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Why Great Brands Lose Their Way

In the CEO Afterlife

Never in the history of marketing has there been so much talk about branding. The conversation in the world of branding is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. Wouldn’t you expect more innovation? This top management ethic is essential to brand resilience. Panic has set in.

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Walmart's Shades of Gray

Harvard Business Review

As the New York Times recently reported, in the early 2000s, when Walmart de Mexico was building stores at a furious pace (making the country the company's second largest market), it was making illegal payments to get building permits and speed store expansion. But the immediate market reaction here is fascinating. Of course not.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. If lawmakers don’t handle this correctly — well, consider Red Flag laws.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors. By June of 2012 we were close to 100.