N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

The moral of my story continues to be that in order to be a great leader, you absolutely must be a great reader. Teddy Roosevelt was rumored to actually read two books a day. Thomas Jefferson had one of the most exhaustive personal libraries of his time prior to donating it to the Library of Congress (which many joked Roosevelt had read).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

At Australia''s Amplify Festival , former IBM Chairman/Europe Hans-Ulrich Maerki observed that one of the most important organizational and cultural shifts that occurred in the aftermath of IBM''s $3.5 Perfectly good words like "innovation," "quality" and "morale" get flensed of all useful and usable meaning.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

Fake news or not, the allegations pose a serious morale problem for anyone working for the White House. Surveys conducted by Connie Ulrich at the University of Pennsylvania and her colleagues suggest that as many as two-thirds of employees experience ethics difficulties at work and that such difficulties cause stress and fatigue.

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