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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. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! What is Worklife Balance? “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”

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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. He and two other economists created the trading process called Black-Scholes that impacted the ways financial markets were informed and influenced.

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Winning as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Harvard Business Review

Social psychologists have been talking about these “positive illusions” for years in terms of mental health outcomes (see the work by Shelley Taylor and her colleagues). But the upside is that an unrealistically optimistic outlook might trigger what’s known as a self-fulfilling prophecy (another idea pioneered by Robert K.

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Sacrifice Is Overrated

Harvard Business Review

Thomas Merton, the famous Trappist monk and Catholic scribe wrote, "A monk is a man who has given up everything in order to possess everything. Thomas Merton's abbey at Gethsemane sells cheese, and in the 160 years since it was founded it has grown from 44 monks to precisely 65. We have an inadequate supply of saints.

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Should You Gamble on Your Company's Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

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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The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable

Harvard Business Review

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

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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. Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. Here a few notable examples.