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Stephen Schwarzman’s 25 Rules for Work & Life

Leading Blog

This is where he really learned about finance and discovered his strengths. Every business is a closed, integrated system with a set of distinct but interrelated parts. You will learn new rules for decision making and organizational behavior. His determination and creativity make for a good read. Analyze what went wrong.

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Management by Extremes

Deming Institute

And, what about inventories? From waste to non-value-added efforts to defects, is less always better for the system at hand, striving for zero? That is, a more economically viable solution, in which the investment in variety is off-set by the systemic savings. Standardization or diversity?

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Top 30 Leadership Blogs 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I did notice two missing blogs: Positive Organizational Behavior at [link]. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). I'm not sure Godin's work classifies as leadership…though I do read it every day, it's more for marketing tips and deep thoughts. And LeaderLab at [link]. I’m not an MBA.

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Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company. For example, in finance courses students learn that profitability and return on assets is the measure of business success.

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Research: For a Corporate Apology to Work, the CEO Should Look Sad

Harvard Business Review

Publishing in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes , they present the findings of two studies. Another paper appearing in the Journal of Corporate Finance adds an interesting wrinkle to this subject. Adams of the London Business School examine how expressions of emotion affect corporate apologies.

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Jim Collins, Meet Michael Porter

Harvard Business Review

Great strategies are like complex systems in which all of the parts fit together seamlessly. There are the "soft" subjects like leadership and organizational behavior, and the "hard" ones like finance, accounting, and operations. The essence of strategy, says Porter, is choosing what not to do. Fit is the fourth test.

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What It Will Take to Change the Culture of Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

Also, I sent him two pieces I wrote for HBR.org, one on the importance of focusing on organizational behavior and not just individuals , the other asserting that culture had more to do with the financial crisis than leverage ratios did. Compensation Ethics Finance' I made recommendations on how to improve regulation.