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Are You Taking Care of Busyness and Working Overtime?

The Practical Leader

“The Acceleration Trap” is a major problem I’ve cited often from a classic series of Harvard Business Review articles by Heike Bruch, professor of leadership at the University of St. Busyness reduces engagement and increases absenteeism. A leadership team retreat can help your team advance.

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Being an Ethical Business in a Corrupt Environment

Harvard Business Review

Our research in Egypt , Zimbabwe , and India shows that organizations should view the prospect of building a strong ethical reputation in such environments as an opportunity, and consider the costs of resisting corruption as an investment in building such a reputation. Ethics Can Be a Differentiator.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

Its weaknesses, like short-termism, speculative trading, absentee ownership, profit- and shareholder-centric orientation, inability to account for non-monetary value, exploitation of labor, and extractive use of natural resources are creating too many disruptions across the globe for the model to survive. Educate and Motivate Others.

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