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Leaders Share about Worklife Balance Integration – A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

” – Thomas Merton. Michelle Cubas of Positive Potentials shares that Work-Life Balance is a Gender Based Myth. John Hunter of Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog shares that vacation time in the USA is much less than most other rich countries, which he think is a mistake. What is Worklife Balance? Follow Beth.

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The Comparing Trap

Harvard Business Review

Robert Merton was 46 when he won the award. Merton had the office on the other side of my office. Bob Merton was as gracious and supportive as the colleague I mentioned earlier. And if we manage to hit this difficult target, we simply create an even more difficult one at which we can aim. You see the problem.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

They might be surprised at how certain economic notions have been directly applied in business, with largely positive results. Only the one I assert in my book Trillion Dollar Economists , that business managers may want to pay a bit more attention to the scribbling of academic economists. Here a few notable examples.

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The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable

Harvard Business Review

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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