Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

” – Thomas Merton. Julie Winkle Giulioni of Juliewinklegiulioni.com suggests that focus–a top strategy for achieving purpose, goals and success–may be the most misconstrued human capacity. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! What is Worklife Balance?

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Merton Mission Statement Learning-by-Doing Goal 490

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 15, 2014

Just Liste n is the book to read to learn the strategies to make you more compelling, and break down the walls that keep you from getting through to the people you need to buy into your ideas and goals. Thomas Merton Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Know that your vulnerability can be your strength.

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Merton Books Power Construction 56

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. Strategy' Many economists since have been hired by the U.S. Economists and market design. Admittedly, better pricing of options has been a mixed blessing.

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Leadership Strategy' Quality aside, we know that those with a reputation for past success tend to get disproportionate credit for future wins – the “ Matthew effect ” described by the sociologist Robert K. The downside of such unrealistic optimism is that it can lead you to be out of touch.

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Merton Taylorism Taylor Bond 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

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). As the chart below shows, only half of the CEOs of companies in the Dow Jones Index have previous experience in corporate finance or strategy.

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CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

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.

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Company Champy Merton Leadership 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries. Instead of letting the bankers strike collapse their prosperity, people decided, simply, that they could get on with the day-to-day stuff of banking themselves.

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Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15