The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

In The Happiness Advantage Shawn points out, “ as late as 1998, there was a 17-to-1 negative-to-positive ratio of research in the field of psychology. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Therefore, bad leadership — or, if you prefer, incompetent management — is a major source of entrepreneurship. their companies account for over $3 trillion of GDP (for the sake of comparison, that's 40% of China's entire GDP). Does this imply that we should hope for more incompetent leadership in the future?

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

It took a second recession in Europe, along with a change in leadership before the ECB undertook to do “whatever it takes” to save the Euro. But GDP fell so much that the actual effect was to push up the ratio of debt to GDP. There was, moreover, no attempt to introduce QE in Europe at this time.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

One estimate pegged the annual income of the Indian diaspora at about one-third of India’s GDP, with much of that coming from Silicon Valley. And it sends a very positive message to high-potentials throughout Microsoft: this is a company where the best candidate, regardless of national origin, can rise to the top.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

It was hosted by Bhutan, a small but visionary country which famously uses Gross National Happiness (GNH) instead of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to index its progress. The first is the pleasant life , which involves positive experiences including contentment, hope, and sensory enjoyment.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

trillion in private sector GDP. Leaders in this position need to shift from working in their company to working on their company. Most management writing focuses on startups or large companies, but if recent performance is any indicator, midcap companies are the place to be. These things are functions of discipline, not size.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

” Despite positive market indicators and careful planning, international-entry initiatives often fall short. ” Despite positive market indicators and careful planning, international-entry initiatives often fall short. Cross-pollinating HQ and international leadership. Hiring required external skill sets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. 4% of US GDP). Learn more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard. Even if only a fraction of the 2.5

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Where there is economic growth, there is opportunity, and the companies that can predict where growth will take place are better positioned to take advantage of it. Four years ago, GE initiated a strategy to compete more effectively in Africa, one of the fastest growing regions in the world in terms of GDP.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Vanguard holds more than $3 trillion in assets, making it the equivalent of the world’s fifth largest country in GDP, ahead of France. In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

If women''s labor participation were closer to male participation, it would contribute $1T to GDP in emerging economies — women led businesses are key to this opportunity. Programs like the Center for Women''s Entrepreneurial Leadership are innovating in the academic space. Entrepreneurship Gender Global business'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

It lumps fundraising in with finance, human resources, leadership training, technology, and other administrative functions. Those correlations are all positive. at 2% of GDP ever since we have been measuring it, and has not budged. But fundraising alone has the capacity to multiply money. How could it?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Typically, they start by acquiring or setting up a primary school so they can teach students from a younger age, to give them more time to have an impact and embed positive behaviors earlier on. (In Our findings suggest the Architects have the most positive long-term impact on exam results (on average, 15 to 23% higher than other leaders).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

It also made economic sense, allowing Greece’s GDP to grow, and thus ultimately pay the creditors, as Paul Krugman has repeatedly argued. The initial reactions, in particular in the press, were positive. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense. Will an advertised collaboration with the OECD bear any fruits?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Once market demand and its key drivers have been established in detail, the discussion can pivot to your supply and its critical internal enablers such as cost position and capabilities. On the growth potential axis we typically have the leadership team define one boundary between high and low growth potential.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

state and city could add at least 5% to GDP by 2025 by advancing the economic potential of women. states could add more than 10%, and the nation’s 50 largest cities could add between 6% and 13% of GDP. trillion GDP opportunity would require the creation of 6.4 trillion in value per year, and it isn’t included in GDP.)

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

trillion in output annually, adding up to 17% of GDP. Although the United States maintains world leadership in many advanced industries, that leadership position is eroding. Through its leadership the company is making the ideal of industry-led regional training consortia real. They employ 12.3

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Heres what orthodox economics would have predicted for a country without banks: A collapse in the money supply, a credit crunch, a trade implosion, mass unemployment, an atomized GDP, and the gears of industry and commerce grinding to a crashing halt. Imagine all the veins in your body suddenly shrinking and collapsing — Avada Kedavra!!

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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. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What can you tell us about the leadership transition underway? How much do you expect the change in leadership to change the Venezuelan economy in the near term? In the case of Maduro, he is a guy who comes from the left wing of the chavismo, very close to the position of Chavez. Many believe there shouldn't even be elections.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

But the President has yet to designate someone to fill the crucial Cabinet level position of U.S. The Trans-Pacific talks have involved 11 developed and developing Pacific Rim nations with a combined GDP of $40 trillion,and which recently got a jolt of energy and complexity when Japan (GDP=$6 trillion) joined the negotiations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What can you tell us about the leadership transition underway? How much do you expect the change in leadership to change the Venezuelan economy in the near term? In the case of Maduro, he is a guy who comes from the left wing of the chavismo, very close to the position of Chavez. Many believe there shouldn't even be elections.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

It was the largest sovereign debt default in world history, and GDP fell by some 30% coupled with a 300% currency devaluation. Compassionate coaches are not just positive cheerleaders but also committed guides, conscious of the state and progress of their team and the individuals in it. But we all know what happened in 2001.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

And at that time, the United States had a public debt/GDP ratio of around 65% — a number that has since passed 100%. According to The Economist , the world's governments currently hold debts of approximately $45 trillion (relative to a world GDP of $65 trillion ). Nearly every major democracy is now struggling with public debt.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve already mentioned the historic Paris agreement, but there are more positive steps worth noting. states , have “decoupled” GDP growth from GHGs. Big themes are great, but periodically a specific example of leadership seems worthy of extra attention. For most of 2016, the world moved quickly on climate.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Taking this position might be good politics — but it's not good policy. It serves nobody's purpose for our political leadership to vilify oil producers. The role of China, which now accounts for 10 percent of the world GDP, is critical. The United States and Europe cannot meet the challenge of climate change alone.

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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). With Venezuela in free collapse, Cuba is in a position to accept help from a new economic benefactor. Does Cuba get a new economic benefactor?

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