Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

As a leader, falling into the trap of quickly judging someone based on a single bad behavior isn’t the best way to assure you have an organization of people brimming with potential. But we’re not talking about sociopaths here, rather the good people in your organization who sometimes behave badly and are capable of so much more.

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Tips Quality Positioning Development 203

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

With the best of intentions, I’ve seen smart leaders charge into sensitive interactions armed with what they believed was a combination of deep empathy, attuned listening, and self-awareness but was, in fact, a way to serve their own emotional needs. Self-Awareness Can Help Leaders More Than an MBA Can. Emotional Intelligence.

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Chief Operating Officer Goleman 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

We also agree that leaders, through overt actions or tacit silence, have profound influence on the organizational climate for women and men at work, and are accountable. Here is the problem. When women are marginalized, disrespected, and harassed in an organization, focusing only on the guy at the top is a mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Instead, we must detonate this toxic trade-off — for while it might not irreparably poison our lives, it surely will diminish, reduce, and wither the worth of our limitless potential. This is the deepest kind of theft; not merely prosperity having been looted from societies, but significance having been stolen from human lives.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Now, this might sound entirely trivial. To solve today's set of burning problems, you just might have to build new institutions, capable of handling stuff a little something like this. He asked me why, and I replied that I espresso leaves me too wired to write, but paradoxically, I always need a little. Singularity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Instead, we must detonate this toxic trade-off — for while it might not irreparably poison our lives, it surely will diminish, reduce, and wither the worth of our limitless potential. This is the deepest kind of theft; not merely prosperity having been looted from societies, but significance having been stolen from human lives.

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Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

If you''re under the age of 35 and/or worth less than a few dozens of millions , you probably get the sinking feeling, by now, that you''re being written off by today''s leaders. Your purpose might be to build a great cathedral. But your reason might be to approach the divine, to leave a legacy, or simply to do great work.

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How To Mission Statement Morale Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

A lot has been written about problems that might arise with the arrival of “true AI,” either as a direct impact of such inventions or because of a programmer’s error. It’s important for business leaders to understand how that future situation will differ from our current concerns and what to do about it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

These are the unspoken phrases that flit like ghosts through what's left stammeringly unspoken by the finely-suited pundits and so-called "leaders" too cowering and afraid, too tempted and silenced, too timid and too petrified to challenge the primacy of a system that's leaving millions to choke on the fumes of the collapse of their own futures.

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