Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

You’ve probably encountered managers you admire more for their technical skills than for their actual leadership skills. In other words, organizations manage careers so that everyone “rises to the level of their incompetence.” And if so, how do organizations manage around the Peter Principle?

Incentives 8

Incentives Career Conflict of Interest Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? We were surprised that 30 leaders in the study recalled a total of 87 “major” ethical dilemmas from their career histories.

Ethics 14

Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

Posen had lots of interesting things to say about what the law got right, what it made worse, and what the best criticisms of it are. His bottom line: “For a manager running a nonfinancial business, the proposed reforms to Dodd-Frank are probably a bad trade-off.” For more on what the law does, go here. Further Reading.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis System Compliance 8