Thought Leadership
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Are You A Complete Executive?
Sustained leadership involves balancing mental, emotional, and physical health
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The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
Research by Christopher Marquis shows that a company's degree of social responsibility is affected by a surprising factor—the language it uses to communicate
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The Tragedy of Commons
By using a Tragedy of the Commons approach, the authors here describe why and how leveraging the knowledge and resources of their ecosystem partners can help many a social entrepreneur overcome the obstacles to success
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Where do you draw the line between Trust and Regulation?
David Larcker and Brian Tayan explain why building trust in an organization pays off
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Why 80 percent of front-line leaders fail (and how to break the cycle)
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." Lao Tzu
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Breaking Bad Leadership Habits
Leaders have to learn and practice new management techniques to overcome the habits that could be holding them back. In two articles, I examine the obstacles, and later, the factors that can help senior executives overcome them
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Heads And Tales: A short story about Boardroom Decision Making during the Global crisis
"When there is plenty of food on the table everyone is nice. Problems only arise when we are running out of food and someone turns off the light; that's actually how a crisis shakes up behaviors in the boardroom." (CEO)
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Facebook's Future
Today, we follow Facebook and update friends on our doings. In the not too distant future, predicts Mikolaj Piskorski, Facebook will follow us and call half the planet customers
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"17 percent of Global Innovation is Coming From Emerging Markets"
Texas A&M's Venkatesh Shankar on how emerging markets are reshaping the global innovation architecture.
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Playing with Icebergs: Negotiating Improvisationally
Negotiation partners do not always tell us what they really want. Real interests may be unclear. And so people get stuck arguing about things that don't really matter, never seeing common interests that offer rich value creation potential. To address this issue, this article proposes viewing negotiation as a paradox: structured spontaneity