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The False Promise of Free Capital Flows

Harvard Business Review

Economists built "general equilibrium" models that, underneath all the fancy math, just assumed markets are stable and optimal. Never quite a true believer in it, Blanchard, now chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), acknowledges the terrible damage it caused. Until the crash and the flight of money.

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View from the 40th Floor: Change at the Top and Bottom

Decker Communication

Ken Blanchard is a friend of mine (and the very successful author of The One Minute Manager ) who knows well the changes in leadership over the last 40 years. And to succeed in today’s ever-changing, tech-enabled, global business climate, all leaders need to know how to influence.

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Get Your Passion Project Moving Without Quitting Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

Or pay a freelance consultant to do market research? Kate Blanchard had a great job at PerkinElmer, the Massachusetts-based multinational, but she was eager to build something of her own. They “carved out time on nights and weekends” to do research and market analysis. Patch weak spots.