Changing The Way The World Works

Four Reasons Ford Could Be A Company Of The Future

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What We All Can Learn From Trauma Survivors

“It’s getting really bad out here,” the CEO of a large food company told me last week over lunch. “The head of one of our divisions committed suicide last week. A day later we had a senior executive die of a heart attack. I see marriages breaking up, people screaming ...

The Costs of Multitasking

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Four Dimensional Leadership

In a world as troubled and endangered as ours, we need a new level of leadership. Whatever your ideological take may be on Barack Obama, I believe he is the model of what we define in our work as a four-dimensional leader. We have in mind a person who is truly ...

Rethinking Self-Interest

Here’s a question we’ve all been asking ourselves: How is it that so many ostensibly smart people in the financial world got it so terribly wrong? Thirty years ago, an ecologist and professor named Garrett Hardin wrote a classic article in the journal Science titled “The Tragedy of the Commons.” His ...

What Zappos Gets That Other Companies Don't

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Our Infinite Capacity for Self-Deception

Twenty five years ago, the New York Times Magazine ran an extraordinary article titled “How Do Tobacco Executives Live With Themselves?” by Roger Rosenblatt. At the end, he quoted an executive named Victor Crawford who worked for five years as a lobbyist for the Tobacco Institute and helped defeat ...

Struggle, Satisfaction & Significance

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Redefining Value

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Greed is Not Good

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