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Three Reasons the Euro Zone Deal Won't Work

Harvard Business Review

The latest Euro crisis summit was different from the 19 others that preceded it in one very important respect: The PR department of the EU played this one very well. The Irish government, with a GDP in 2011 of close to 160 billion euros, has committed at least 64 billion euros to its banks. Is that a sound investment?

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Ten Things You're Not Allowed to Say at Davos

Harvard Business Review

Hence, your incentives are largely just the same as everybody else at Davos: to perpetuate stale concepts like "profit," "product," and "output," the tired, toxic practices of "strategy," "finance," and "marketing." Hence, the atmosphere of groupthink. Your Mom tends to tell you what you want to hear.

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