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Three Core Questions to Start Your New Year

The Practical Leader

In The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age , John Heider writes: “ The leader who is centered and grounded can work with erratic people and critical group situations without harm. The start of a new year is an excellent time to renew and refocus ourselves, our teams, and our organizations.

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Why People Keep Saying, “That’s What the Terrorists Want”

Harvard Business Review

A cab driver told me he was going to keep taking customers from the train station because taking a few days off from work to grieve is exactly what al-Qaeda wanted. The theory comes from the foundational work of Fritz Heider, the father of attributional theory.

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