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Change the World and Get to Bed by 10:00

Harvard Business Review

Maybe, like Arianna Huffington , it''s a personal crisis that convinces you. They also have the power, through their policies, to change how employees work (and how managers encourage them to). Social Influence. Sense of Involvement.

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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

In turn — and here's the crucial part — India's likely to be able to create the future: stuff that's globally hypercompetitive, because it's lean, clean, and green, igniting a new basis for export-led growth, and, more than likely, offering better sources of advantage. Now let's go back to the much-maligned WikiLeaks.

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We All Work at Enron Now

Harvard Business Review

You know how your mobile operator manages to slyly slide hidden costs past you — and the service you get is patchy and unpredictable? Once companies have to account for the costs they've been externalizing, new jobs to manage new competencies will emerge. Innovation atrophy. That's the Enronian economy in a microcosm.