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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

2 Linda C Smith December 17th, 2010 at 3:17 pm This is an interesting article and interesting that this topic would come up with female leaders at Purdue. Female leaders need to recognize that taking time off is part and parcel of taking proper care of themselves. But is there a video? I can’t see one.

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. Is your article title really about anger management or appropriate emotional expression in business? link] mikemyatt A great motto Anna, and sound perspectives as well. Thanks for commenting. link] landoncreasy Hi Mike, Great post.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies

Harvard Business Review

United Parcel Service. Procter & Gamble. Consumer Goods. Technology. Johnson & Johnson. Biotech & Pharma. Walt Disney. Prudential Financial. Automotive. Cisco Systems. Communication. British American Tobacco. Alibaba Group. Technology. Biotech & Pharma. HSBC Holdings. Wells Fargo. Consumer Goods. Online Retail. Goldman Sachs.

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Guidance is Good, Overpriced Shares a Disaster

Harvard Business Review

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. Last year I got to edit his book, Winning Investors Over , and an accompanying HBR article, " How to Win Investors Over." BL: A misconception: Dealing with funds providers is part and parcel of running the company.

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Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

Harvard Business Review

One of us recently had the opportunity to test the concept of mindful strategy with a group of middle managers and senior executives from the legal, advertising, finance, and non-profit sectors in the Bay Area. Visualize positive outcomes : As Daniel Goleman argues , positivity is part and parcel of focused attention.

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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

But we now see insurers exploiting geographically refined data to more precisely estimate land parcel risk. Until recently, though, property insurance has lagged in its use of data to engage in price differentiation.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. How has Europe dealt with the situation? A major reason for this deficit is insufficient investment. billion).

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