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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. All that corruption helped them hit quarterly EPS targets. He can tell you what’s moving in the right direction—and where we’re getting loose and need to tighten up operations. Their raft might be micromanaging what gets done and how it gets done.

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Dress for the Job You Want?

Harvard Business Review

Hectored by the blogosphere, mocked by the press, UBS has recanted its 43-page employee primer on how to appear polished, proficient, and professional. within large corporations) identified when asked what contributed to, or detracted from, "executive presence" (EP) at their firm.

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Business Needs to Do What Government Can't

Harvard Business Review

As Ashoka CEO Bill Drayton told us, the ongoing shift in our economies means we must abandon institutions where a few people tell "everyone else how to repeat together efficiently, be it a law firm or an assembly line, a world characterized by a limited and vertical nervous system."

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4 Ways CEOs Can Conquer Short-Termism

Harvard Business Review

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. Bertolini observed that many of his peers had been promising 15% earnings per share (EPS), even during the financial crisis of 2009.

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