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Leading in a World of Change: Lessons from Downton Abbey

Great Leadership By Dan

Accelerating globalization, technology convergence, volatile world financial markets and demands for ethical, environmentally responsible business practices are presenting organizations and their leaders with unprecedented challenges. Don’t try to resist technology in the workplace. Don’t wait to act.

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Ethical Consumerism Isn’t Dead, It Just Needs Better Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Ethical consumerism is the broad label for companies providing products that appeal to people’s best selves (for example, fair trade coffee or a purchase that includes a donation to a charitable cause). This pessimistic stance stems primarily from the lower sales of ethical brands. We cannot shop our way to a better world.”

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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. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Teachers have had enough.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. ” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules. We created an expanded vision of customer partnerships with big, market-driven outcomes that the company could rally behind.

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Why We’re So Hypocritical About Online Privacy

Harvard Business Review

Even the words we say on Twitter , the things we like on Facebook , the websites we tend to visit, and the sound of our voices can be turned into a fairly detailed psychological profile, and the potential for trading this data is by no means confined to the world of marketing.

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Narrowing the Chasm Between PR Professionals and Wikipedia

Harvard Business Review

Consider: Employees, entrepreneurs, and agency partners have flooded the site, pasting in marketing copy for every company product, adding the official bio for each and every senior executive, and including voluminous details of every CSR initiative to their organization’s corporate page.

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