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The Best Leadership Books of 2019

Leading Blog

The Good Fight : Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team and Organization Back on Track by Liane Davey (Page Two, 2019) Liane Davey shows you how to create the productive conflict your organization needs to get along and get stuff done. In fact, bad breaks and bad feelings create the most powerful incentives to become smarter and stronger.

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

Finally, after tough negotiations with Republican leaders, the President announced a comprehensive tax package that not only addressed income, capital gains and estate tax rates, but also the AMT, unemployment insurance and many expiring individual and business tax credits and incentives. People are optimistic–almost happy!

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Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?

Harvard Business Review

HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. Doctors were full-time employees on fixed salary with no perverse incentives to perform unnecessary tests or procedures. salary levels. at high cost. health care.

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6 Ways to Take Control of Your Career Development If Your Company Doesn’t Care About It

Harvard Business Review

Too worried about their own hides, most managers don’t have time or energy to focus on anyone else’s. You and Your Team Series. Unfortunately, organizations today are unknowingly leaving employees with skill gaps and blind spots that can derail careers and organizational effectiveness. And managers aren’t helping.

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing. Data — on everything from pedestrian patterns and traffic to crime, school performance, and energy use — can change the way properties are used as well as the way they are valued.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

Because it is extremely difficult to define a priori what an entrepreneur is and is not, pro-entrepreneur incentives will inevitably create a direct or indirect cost for those entrepreneurs who don''t happen to fall into government''s typically limiting definition. We don''t need to incentivize people to act naturally.

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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

For example, at financial services company ING, an issue deemed “material” to their view of sustainability related to financing a variety of “sustainable transitions” in industries such clean technology, real estate and others. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.