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A Truly Great Boss is hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.

Brigette Hyacinth

A former manager of mine once told me, “If I am going down, you are going down with me.” It only got worse from there, so I knew it was time to start planning my exit strategy. It only got worse from there, so I knew it was time to start planning my exit strategy. 7 Worst Bad Boss Behaviors.

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Avoiding the Soft "Yes"

Harvard Business Review

This happens when executives get jazzed about a broad innovation strategy, nod their head vigorously in support of it, but stop short of committing real, tangible resources, however modest. You almost always can find money in someone''s budget, or find creative ways around financial constraints to progress a new idea. Be specific.

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Permission to Fail

Harvard Business Review

In most organizations without professional risk managers, the amount of risk individuals are allowed to take is set informally and evaluated by tradition. There are strong incentives to hide or misrepresent risk. Risk managers employ a variety of tools to align individual risk decisions to organization-wide risk appetite.

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Give Impact Investing Time and Space to Develop

Harvard Business Review

Without those, the institutions managing the billions of sector dollars won’t be able accurately to assess the risks they are taking and, more important, the returns, both financial and social, they hope to generate. First, impact investing needs time to develop.