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Sustainable Leadership and Organizations: The Ideas of Martin Seligman

Michael Lee Stallard

2 Comments so far william czander on May 31st, 2010 Happiness coaches are part of the great conspiracy that began some 20 years ago when CEO’s , hedge fund managers and bankers discovered if they outsourced jobs to China and India it would increase the bottom line and they would all get rich. Remember “smile or your fired”.

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Michael Fraccaro, CHRO at Mastercard, on the value of business resource groups

HR Digest

I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” Our YoPros BRG offers a reverse mentoring program, where early career employees coach their colleagues in using social media platforms. That, I think gets to the heart of what the right culture can do.

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Three Ways to Overcome Career Anxiety

Harvard Business Review

At a recent dinner party, I was speaking with a friend who had just been promoted to vice president at a well-known New York hedge fund. This is a generation of social media junkies — they're on an average of 2.4 Speak at an industry conference. Second, Facebook and social networks are increasing anxiety.

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Loose Ties Are Abundant, but Risky, at the Top

Harvard Business Review

During a press conference that afternoon, Owens tried to endorse the idea of a fiscal stimulus in general while making it clear that layoffs would persist. When pressed, Owens tried to hedge his answer, but the media portrayed him as calling the President a liar. We found quite the opposite in our research on leaders.

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Look Who's Distracted Now

Harvard Business Review

When acclaimed hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones revealed his opinion that women become much less effective as stock traders or investors once they have children, he was, in a sense, suggesting that the distraction of motherhood—a distinctly feminine condition—exceeds that of other attention-siphoning activities.

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What Really Led to Last Summer’s Most Notorious Firing

Harvard Business Review

Instead of monitoring the media for new ideas, attend trade shows and conferences and go to talks in areas that are out of your area of knowledge. There are things you can do to put yourself in luck''s way, says Martin Bliemel of the Australian School of Business. Such as search harder for sources of inspiration. They''re pretentious.

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Think Carefully About Where You Put the Office Bathroom

Harvard Business Review

couldn''t advertise themselves as investment opportunities through traditional media to nonaccredited investors. You run a division of his company and can only see him via video conference. Finally: SEC Lifts Ban on Advertising Fundraising Rounds Inc. Until now, start-ups in the U.S. Then he berates you for an hour.