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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently.

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Capitalism's Mea Culpa; Humanism's Opportunity?

Harvard Business Review

In the face of indisputable financial and political corruption, even David Brooks, a dyed-in-the-wool conservative, is forced to question his own longstanding beliefs about the rationality of markets. Meanwhile, Michael Porter wonders if we have missed out on what's good about sustainability , and suggests a new approach.

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The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

Let me couch this for you in the pedestrian terms of financial hydraulics — the tawdry terms which seem to substitute for thinking in what's become of our thin, shallow economic and political discourse. Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? There is no system.

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