Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

In an adjacent office was a colleague who had written something like 12 books and was an internationally recognized scholar in the area of organizational innovation. Robert Merton was 46 when he won the award. Merton had the office on the other side of my office. He had a beautiful summer house near Cape Cod.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The bankers, fed up with regulation, dissatisfaction, and downright hostility, decided to unleash the planet-destroying superweapon in their arsenal: they went on strike, not once, but three times. The bankers thought even one of six might have been impossible. But perhaps the costs have risen, too.

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Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

I was thinking about that story by Thomas Merton during a recent board meeting. Early on in our careers, we might speak up without concern or context. Or perhaps we have wondered, as others have , if it's worth the cost of speaking up. Perhaps the question is less "should I speak up?" than "when should I speak up?"

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