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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. There’s a lot to admire, in our opinion, like the way he shook up the Vatican Bank. He can tell you what’s moving in the right direction—and where we’re getting loose and need to tighten up operations. Let’s be candid: That’s part of the job. But sometimes it doesn’t.

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A Better Metric for the Value of a Worker Training Program

Harvard Business Review

But according to the World Bank , only 30% of youth employment programs are successful, with many of those offering only marginal benefit. We need to adopt something similar to a “total cost of ownership” (TCO) analysis. And most programs have no positive effect at all. And accountability drives results.

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The Triumph (and Challenge) of Climate Math

Harvard Business Review

trillion : The size of the "climate economy" by 2020 according to the bank HSBC. A large consumer products company — which tells me it will be going public with this story very soon — has already cut carbon in its own operations by 80%. And it's not like the world is ignoring the challenge entirely.