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Corporate Entrepreneurship: Turn Irony into Opportunity

In the CEO Afterlife

Bureaucracy and stagnation set in. Several, such as Trump, still operate by the brain and muscle ethic. Their competitive edge eroded because the people at the top, who considered themselves the corporate brain, failed to adapt or innovate. The brain viewed the masses below it as the muscle. The muscle never got to see the big picture.

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If Employees Don’t Trust You, It’s Up to You to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

Employees who don’t trust their managers usually point to big-picture, obvious things: Their superiors skate the edges of ethical behavior, hide information, take credit for others’ hard work, or flat-out deceive people. Finally, check those references! People who are fired for breeding distrust are serial job hunters.