Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

” – Thomas Merton. Michelle Cubas of Positive Potentials shares that Work-Life Balance is a Gender Based Myth. Forget it, says Skip Prichard of Leadership Insights. Follow the advice of Tristan Wember of Leadership Thoughts and restore balance in a day. What is Worklife Balance? Follow Michelle. Follow Jon.

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Merton Mission Statement Learning-by-Doing Goal 429

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The problem with the new mission, though, is that it's missing one word: positive. Of course, HBS hopes to educate leaders who make a positive difference in the world, but that's harder to do than it might seem. Most leaders don't have much of an impact (as I wrote about in my first post ) and picking someone who will is risky.

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Company Champy Merton Leadership 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

But there may be another reason that winners keep winning, a reason that is particularly useful to understand business leadership: Some people tend to be unrealistically optimistic, a view that sometimes makes itself come true. The lesson for leadership is clear. But leadership is so much more than correct calculation.

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Merton Taylorism Taylor Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Furthermore, if youre the publican, and youve been chatting with me and with Bill, then youre even better positioned to become a de facto arbitrator of notes — a bank. And thats exactly the role that pubs began to play. You might say that a radically decentralized, p2p financial system spontaneously arose.

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Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15