Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2010

My favorite Moynihan quote is my favorite because it so aptly describes the root cause of the failure of leadership that so much of the American public is concerned about today. is the only country running all four systems. We have the best health care system in the world.” Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Based on what facts?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

Whether at the level of whole economies fixating on GDP or corporations trying to nail quarterly earnings targets, managers are being influenced by the wrong metrics and making decisions that actually leave us worse off. But mega firms don't have a monopoly on leadership. As we see it, managers have three choices.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

Joe Bower and Lynn Paine “had me at hello” (to quote Jerry Maguire ) with their new HBR article, “ The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership.” If it is Pershing Square, the interests of the investors who have provided the company with more valuable capital will swamp its influence — appropriately.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

With a limited financial system, Cuba lacks the domestic savings to raise fixed capital investment above the current level of 10% of GDP (half the average of Latin America). Finally, Cuba confronts significant difficulties caused by its dual currency system. Do the Democrats add Senate seats in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

And so what I see here is China, vastly bigger than the Philippines and Vietnam, with not only more military capacity, but much more economic capacity and influence over those markets, seeing if they can improve their situation on the ground, and not minding so much if the cost is that a couple of noses get bloodied. It was around 2%.

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