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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-03-18

Tanveer Naseer

Here’s a compliation of some of the articles/tweets I shared on Twitter this week: Leaders, Are You Developing Your Employee’s Super Powers? 4 Problems With Our Brains That Cause Us To Make Dumb Decisions [link] # psychology #decisionmaking #. link] # leadership #. RT @ mikehenrysr : Consider yourself a “Thought Leader&# ?

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Longrunonomics vs. Shortrunonomics

Harvard Business Review

Real business cycle theory continued to prosper, developing an increasing stranglehold over the professional journals. Longrunonomics is what's also referred to as neoclassical economics, the logical, elegant study of incentives, utility, and equilibrium that has formed the core of the discipline for 150 years. And nothing happened.

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Gene Sperling and Wall Street's Giant Sucking Sound

Harvard Business Review

A parallel that springs to mind is the deleterious impact that Western aid and development agencies have often had in Africa, at least in the past when they favored big-dollar projects. The money the Western do-gooders had at their disposal was of a different order of magnitude from the sums generated by the local economy.

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