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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

Superbosses can be fierce or gentle, belligerent or self-depreciating, but whatever their style, they do a much better job inspiring and teaching because they get in their trenches with protégés, leading by example and giving them personalized attention they require to move up quickly. Best Leadership Books of 2013. Blog Post ).

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

Allows businesses to take a 100% depreciation write-off for investments in certain new business equipment in 2010 and 2011. Review your investment portfolio to identify certain appreciated positions to sell now before taxes potentially increase in 2013. In 2011, workers will pay 4.2%

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Don't Draw the Wrong Lessons from Better Place's Bust

Harvard Business Review

Better Place would then use these multi-year contracts to finance its infrastructure investments and battery depreciation. By May 2013 it had sold fewer than 3,000 vehicles. Instead of buying batteries, consumers would buy subscriptions for miles (just as mobile-phone operators sell subscriptions to minutes). What Went Wrong?