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Review of “The Happiness Advantage” by Shawn Achor

The Practical Leader

And the movement to measure national well-being on factors other than GDP could be game changing: As we know, what gets measured gets managed. Another excellent book that’s more toward well-being and flourishing and surpasses the personal growth advice in The Happiness Advantage is Barbara Frederickson’s Positivity.

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What Has the Eurozone Learned from the Financial Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

It took a second recession in Europe, along with a change in leadership before the ECB undertook to do “whatever it takes” to save the Euro. But GDP fell so much that the actual effect was to push up the ratio of debt to GDP. There was, moreover, no attempt to introduce QE in Europe at this time.

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CEO Next Door Book Reveals Four Key Behaviors Of Successful CEOs And Busts CEO Myths

Eric Jacobson

The CEO Next Door is the new book that offers career advice for everyone who aspires to rise in their organization and achieve their full potential. Impressively, that advice is based on an in-depth analysis of over 2,6,00 leaders -- drawn from a database of more than 17,000 CEOs and C-suite executives. non-farm GDP).

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Why President Kagame Runs Rwanda Like a Business

Harvard Business Review

Was that advice from people like Professor Porter? In fact, it is among the leaders contributing to our GDP growth, with huge potential. And I think Rwanda, partly out of scarcity of resources and partly out of good leadership, has been able to actually implement and execute. Economy Global business Leadership'

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9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016

Harvard Business Review

Then China’s President Xi said he’ll be attending the annual bigwig gathering in Davos for the first time, with reports of China’s interest in filling trade gaps left by Brexit and possible leadership gaps on climate left by Trump. Many banks heeded the advice, pulling funding from coal.

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