Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The yacht was perfect, of course, and most of the bridesmaids were there as planned. But of course! And then, of course, the usual self-assured act later on, as if to say, “All part of the plan.”. Of course, once he believed, then others would too, making his vision more likely to come true. So what was the problem?

Merton 8

Merton Taylorism Taylor Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

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. Gerstner, of course, led IBM to a historic turnaround.

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Company Champy Merton Leadership 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

What ambitious, smart, enterprising young student, who aspires to be the next Bill Gates, would trade the kind of say Gates has in dictating the course of tens of billions of philanthropic dollars for the chance to work for a sacrificial wage? We have an inadequate supply of saints.

Merton 12

Merton Self-aware Rate of Return Class 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

I was thinking about that story by Thomas Merton during a recent board meeting. Of course, underlying all that.does anything need to be said at all? Minority viewpoints have been proven to aid the quality of decision making in juries, by teams, and for the purpose of innovation. than "when should I speak up?"

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Merton Groupthink CFO Cost 15