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Leaders need to Lead

Great Leadership By Dan

It begins with a clear articulation of a unit’s long term strategic objectives—and the development of a disciplined strategy to achieve those objectives. He used to bemoan senior managers that knew a lot about finance, labor negotiations and “leadership” but couldn’t tell a crank shaft from a piston rod.

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Gene Sperling and Wall Street's Giant Sucking Sound

Harvard Business Review

Shaw, and $135,000 for one speech at Goldman Sachs. Shaw, Summers wasn't just a big-name figurehead, but actually involved himself with the firm's investment strategies (or so I've heard both from Summers and people at D.E. Shaw and what he made at the White House). million in one year from the hedge fund D.E.

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