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A Truly Great Boss is hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.

Brigette Hyacinth

A former manager of mine once told me, “If I am going down, you are going down with me.” It only got worse from there, so I knew it was time to start planning my exit strategy. It only got worse from there, so I knew it was time to start planning my exit strategy. 7 Worst Bad Boss Behaviors.

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Avoiding the Soft "Yes"

Harvard Business Review

But since most people''s incentives are tied to delivering against the core business, they''ll likely nod their heads and agree to help out — but prioritize the tasks they feel they''re being paid to do over the pursuit of uncertain ideas. Detail the metrics that senior management can monitor as they watch their investment.

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Permission to Fail

Harvard Business Review

In most organizations without professional risk managers, the amount of risk individuals are allowed to take is set informally and evaluated by tradition. There are strong incentives to hide or misrepresent risk. Risk managers employ a variety of tools to align individual risk decisions to organization-wide risk appetite.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

Many of them want to share responsibility in how the hospital is managed. For example, we openly stated a preference for an institution that would be willing to partner with us for at least 10 years, and we included specific language about exit strategies.

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Give Impact Investing Time and Space to Develop

Harvard Business Review

Without those, the institutions managing the billions of sector dollars won’t be able accurately to assess the risks they are taking and, more important, the returns, both financial and social, they hope to generate. First, impact investing needs time to develop.