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An Ordinary Man: Gerald R. Ford

Leading Blog

Richard Norton Smith’s extraordinary biography of Gerald Ford, An Ordinary Man , pulls together multiple perspectives to give essential insights into Ford’s thinking and leadership. G ERALD FORD was an inner-directed leader that gave him quiet strength. He didn’t indulge his ego. Ford had moral authority because he lived his values.

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CEOs Get Paid Too Much, According to Pretty Much Everyone in the World

Harvard Business Review

While the estimated pay ratios Kiatpongsan and Norton found did differ based on, say, political leanings, the ideal pay ratios were similar across the board: Note, for example, that respondents who “strongly agreed” that differences in income were too large estimated a much larger pay gap between CEOs and unskilled workers (12.5:1)

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Antagonistic Mediators Can Make Resolving Disputes Easier

Harvard Business Review

Yet new research that I conducted with Ting Zhang of Columbia Business School and Mike Norton of Harvard Business School suggests this conventional wisdom is wrong. In one study, for instance, participants faced a “nice” mediator — one who spoke in a friendly tone and asked questions politely.

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The Strange Behavioral Logic of the Sequester Stalemate

Harvard Business Review

In fact, research by my Harvard colleagues Mike Norton and Todd Rogers indicates that people have an overly optimistic view of the future when it comes to wants and preferences. This, of course, is a problematic assumption.

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How to Manage Your Former Peers

Harvard Business Review

Watkins notes that "you'll know the politics of the organization better than an outsider. Four years into his job at a government educational agency in Louisiana, Scott Norton got a huge promotion. You're an important part of this team, and I'm going to make sure you have what you need to succeed.". Make use of the advantages.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

They can get “lost” in the system and have to deal with more politics and tight budgets. There are also lots of articles on hiring product managers to get perspective on what the hiring managers are looking for – I especially recommend my friend Ken Norton ’s piece How to Hire a Product Manager.

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Grassroots Leadership through Social Power

Coaching Tip

1 national infrastructure priority," says Roy Norton, the nation's consul general in Detroit. It's got to be the money-in-politics issue in Michigan this year." . The project would generate 10,000 construction jobs, the Michigan Transportation Dept. Canada has offered to lend Michigan up to $550 million to build connecting roads.

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