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The Power of Persistence for Leaders

LDRLB

As study author Steve Kaplan puts it, “Persistent leaders don’t give up>” Never giving up is common with successful company leaders and business entrepreneurs. I expect people to do their best, and anyone who works for me has to have a strong work ethic. Genuinely care for your people. Help them succeed.

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How to Give a Robot a Job Review

Harvard Business Review

. “This goes to the heart of intelligent systems design,” asserts Jerry Kaplan, author of Humans Need Not Apply. ” Kaplan, a longtime Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and investor, flatly dismisses efforts to humanize or “managerialize” smart machines as “excessive and gratuitous anthropomorphism.”

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Two myths about creativity underlie the squeamishness: First, that creativity is morally, ethically good. Notice: That second part of the creativity definition — "appropriate to some goal" — doesn't mean that the goal is necessarily ethical. Second, that certain arenas of human activity are off-limits to creativity.