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4 Beliefs that Lead to Bad Decisions

Strategy Driven

When people who have a stake in an issue get left out of the decision, they feel slighted and become resistant to change. He earned his BA magna cum laude from Harvard and his MBA and JD from Stanford and previously led projects for McKinsey & Company. Successful decisions engage stakeholders effectively and efficiently.

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Not Taking Risks Is the Riskiest Career Move of All

Harvard Business Review

Research I conducted in 2012, 2013, and 2014 with the global advertising agency J. with people ranging from janitors to CEOs, old as well as young — were thinking of changing not just their jobs, but their careers. But it’s hard to jettison a career decades in the making in the pursuit of something new.

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What to Do When You’re Returning to a Company You Used to Work For

Harvard Business Review

” Perhaps you originally left because you “felt dead-ended in your career and now have an opportunity to come back at a higher level.” You must resist the temptation to “gravitate toward the familiar,” Watkins says. But in 2013, after five years at the company, she resigned. She returned in 2015.

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When Did the U.S. Stop Seeing Teachers as Professionals?

Harvard Business Review

Since March, schools in West Virginia , Oklahoma , Kentucky , Arizona , Colorado and North Carolina have either been shut down or turned into sites of resistance. One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. It normally aspires to social, not selfish, purpose.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. We’re trying to figure out why some industries seem to be more resistant to others. When I read it, I thought, well, there’s something here that’s tingling my spider senses. LARRY: Here it is.