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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 57 – An Interview with Robert Simons, author of Seven Strategy Questions

Strategy Driven

Special Edition 57 – An Interview with Robert Simons, author of Seven Strategy Questions explores the seven strategy questions that can help an organization’s leaders identify gaps within their strategy and its execution. Robert Simons, author of Seven Strategy Questions , is the Charles M. About the Author. All rights reserved.

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Leadership and the Ground Zero Mosque

Next Level Blog

For a full discussion of the historical grounding of their positions, I encourage you to read this column by Simon Schama in the Financial Times and this one by former George W. "  Whether they’re stated or not, most organizations have operating principles.  Bush speechwriter, Michael Gerson in the Washington Post.

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Corporate Empathy Is Not an Oxymoron

Harvard Business Review

As the CEO of a British bank confided at last year’s World Economic Forum, “We all know it’s important to be empathic, but how do I galvanize 48,000 people in my UK operations — most of whom think that empathy is for wimps?” It is seen as a soft and frilly add-on rather than a core tool.