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During this Crisis, Don’t Expect Business as Usual from the Family Enterprise

Strategy Driven

We simply have no precedent for how to plan for what may come next, or for managing the pace of the upheaval. For example, within resilient family businesses, owners are not just together to make money, but to share values, responsibilities and a commitment to future success. These family businesses are able to act collaboratively.

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A Stunning, New Leadership Lens

Steve Farber

We’ve been exploring the convergence of three essential qualities: Human Capital–individuals’ attributes, talents, capacities, and contribution. Social Capital–the strength, connection, and relationships between those individuals.

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Does Work Make You Happy? Evidence from the World Happiness Report

Harvard Business Review

We look primarily at how people evaluate the quality of their lives overall, something Gallup measures according to the Cantril Ladder , an 11-point scale where the top step is your best possible life and the bottom step is your worst possible life. Which jobs are happiest? Eleven broad job types are recorded in the Gallup World Poll.

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The Inexperience Advantage

Harvard Business Review

But a line needs to be drawn between not fully engaging with the inexperienced (painful, but understandable) and making them feel like they've committed a crime with their lack of knowledge and years under their belt (not okay, ever). In other words, we need to start playing to our strengths.

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With New York Schools Appointment, Bloomberg Did it His Way

Harvard Business Review

Black has no management experience in education — her entire career has been spent in magazine publishing — and her contact with the public school system in New York has been very limited. The contretemps over this appointment brings to mind three classic management issues, and research about them that is too often ignored.