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Review of “The Happiness Advantage” by Shawn Achor

The Practical Leader

And the movement to measure national well-being on factors other than GDP could be game changing: As we know, what gets measured gets managed. We use this in our retreats and workshops to go through the heads of “hard-nosed and results-focused” operational executives and managers to get at issues of the heart.

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Why Kaiser Permanente Is Integrating Sustainability into Health Care Operations

Harvard Business Review

GDP and 8% of greenhouse gas emissions. The company has made increasing commitments to renewable energy as part of its aggressive greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals (30% by 2020). I expected a more typical answer about achieving GHG reduction goals or doing the right thing. Why are they doing so much on renewable energy?

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. If you feel a sense of belonging with the larger organization, you’re more likely to share its values and goals. Translators were employed for cross-border communications.

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China, America, and Copycat Economics

Harvard Business Review

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. From the vantage point of many in the United States, where optimistic estimates of GDP growth continue to be cut and now hover around 2%, it seems that the Chinese "problem" is a nice one to have. That was down from 9.7%

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Fixing the World's Infrastructure Problems

Harvard Business Review

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries.

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The Best-Performing Emerging Economies Emphasize Competition

Harvard Business Review

For our research , we looked at 71 emerging economies and identified 18 that achieved rapid and consistent GDP growth over the past 50 and 20 years. By bringing them into their ecosystems, the larger competitive firms help instill management and operational best practices, and can accelerate and encourage technology adoption.