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Morning Advantage: How Tide Detergent Became a Drug Currency

Harvard Business Review

Now, that’s what I call brand loyalty. You've probably heard that President Obama is getting flak for surrounding himself with a bevy of male advisers as he begins his second term, and Jena McGregor agrees that there's a diversity problem in the president's inner circle — but not just because of gender. THE ANSWER IS YES.

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Steve Jobs and The Bobby Knight School of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

He routinely denigrated the ideas and accomplishments of employees, expected a commitment to work but seldom appreciated loyalty, arbitrarily fired people, disregarded the feelings of others, excluded people from "secret" projects, routinely took credit for the accomplishments of others, and did not allow others to have a public face.