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How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave

Harvard Business Review

So when Amazon reports below-consensus earnings, as it did Tuesday, and the share price jumps, as it did after-hours Tuesday and again Wednesday morning, the reaction isn't quite the puzzle it seems. Amazon has this permission because it has trained its shareholders to believe that everything will work out in the end.

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10 Common Thinking Errors Leaders Make

Mark Sanborn

” A team leader keeps an underperforming employee because of the time and money spent on their training. False Consensus Effect Leaders suffering from the false consensus effect overestimate the extent to which others share their opinions and beliefs. Also know as “throwing good money after bad money.”

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How Korea Can Avoid Japan’s Economic Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

This instability meant that Japan was unable to iron out a national consensus on its reform plan, or implement reforms in the long run. Even though the Japanese government dared to take deficit financing in order to boost the economy, it mostly injected money into building infrastructure, but didn’t expand spending on welfare much.

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10 Common Thinking Errors Leaders Make

Mark Sanborn

” A team leader keeps an underperforming employee because of the time and money spent on their training. False Consensus Effect Leaders suffering from the false consensus effect overestimate the extent to which others share their opinions and beliefs. Also know as “throwing good money after bad money.”

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8 Tech Trends to Watch in 2016

Harvard Business Review

HR managers can use bots to train employees. The blockchain is a sort of distributed consensus system, where no one person controls all the data. And it potentially eliminates the need for all intermediaries in most transactions, even those outside finance. If your organization is approached next year, what will you do?

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Managing Effectively in a Matrix

Harvard Business Review

Influence and conflict management capabilities help leaders to build consensus around a common purpose and deliver the collaborative solutions that the matrix requires. Create enterprise-level training programs. Give young leaders a chance to shadow top-level executives. Facilitate different types of leadership experiences.

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. Integrating comprehensive services will require significant changes in culture, infrastructure, training, regulation, and financing. Lauri Rotko/Folio Images/Getty Images.