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Stop Using the Excuse “Organizational Change Is Hard”

Harvard Business Review

For example, when participants in one of the studies were presented with a season’s worth of statistics for a star athlete who had logged worse numbers than usual, the participants were quick to conclude that the player’s career had begun an irreversible downward spiral.

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Add Women, Get Smarter: What’s the Deal with Social Sensitivity?

First Friday Book Synopsis

Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.” Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. To read the complete article, [.].

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Should You Gamble on Your Company's Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

This motto is vastly more ambitious than the previous one — to educate leaders who "make a decent profit — decently" — and ambition, as Nitin Nohria (now HBS's Dean) and James Champy wrote in The Arc of Ambition , is usually a valuable quality. Another key strategy is to match the person to the situation.

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