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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From DC League of Super-Pets

Joseph Lalonde

After Superman is captured, Krypto is forced to team up with superpowered shelter pets Ace (Kevin Hart), Merton (Natasha Lyonne), Chip (Diego Luna), and PB (Vanessa Bayer). There are natural-born leaders and then there are those who have to work on their leadership skills. For those who have natural skills, leadership is easy.

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8 Leadership Quotes From The Book, Just Listen

Eric Jacobson

. -- Steve Strauss Humility is the surest sign of strength. -- Thomas Merton Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. -- Bill Gates The secret of getting ahead is getting started. -- Agatha Chrisie Don''t find fault. Find a remedy. -- Henry Ford.

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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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CEOs Don’t Care Enough About Capital Allocation

Harvard Business Review

It’s been more than 50 years since Nobel prizewinners Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller identified return on investments as a major component of value creation (and value destruction). This, of course, raises an obvious question: Why are so few CEOs skilled at capital allocation? It is, in fact, the salt in the value recipe.

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Make Serendipity Work for You

Harvard Business Review

To equate serendipity to luck or chance is naĂŻve, as well as unhelpful, particularly considering that serendipity is a distinct (even if rare) skill that can be traded much like any commodity. To truly appreciate this skill, as suggested in a recent blog post by Michael Maubossin , we must return to serendipity's etymological origins.

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Should You Gamble on Your Company's Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

The sociologist Robert Merton dubbed this "The Matthew Effect," where the rich (in every sense of the word, from money to status to fame) get richer just because advantages beget more advantages. Another key strategy is to match the person to the situation. Additionally, you need to think about temperament.

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Life is Luck — Here’s How to Plan a Career Around It

Harvard Business Review

Kahneman’s implication is that the difference between moderate and great success is mostly luck, not skill. The number of tries you have before poor performance is attributed to skill . Extreme uncertainty is only a problem if the organization holds you responsible for failure that has more to do with chance than with your skill.

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