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Is give-and-take an old-fashioned notion?

Lead Change Blog

In their book, People of the Lake: Mankind and its Beginnings , Richard Leakey and Kurt Lewin remark that our ancestors participated in an “honored network of obligation” i.e., I help you, you help me. Balanced reciprocity as defined by Wikipedia “refers to direct exchange of customary equivalents without any delay.”

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No Joke: The April 1st, 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

of them, Wally Bock from Three Star Leadership, and one of my early blogging mentors, is still a regular contributor and included in this month's edition (Mike Myatt and Mark Stelzner still show up now and then). Bruce Lewin from Four Groups' Blog presents Why is Understanding People So Hard.

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Grieving for a Colleague: Deep, Silent, and Solitary

Harvard Business Review

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. Then I noticed the silence. People sat alone, mostly.

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