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This is a Post on Leadership

LDRLB

Next I make the jump from childhood story to talking about some motivational element that really has more to do with personal development than leadership. Here is a paragraph describing a recent headline-dominating story about a fallen CEO and his (or her) golden parachute.

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Lessons From the Military: Your Risk is My Risk, Too

Harvard Business Review

Leading people in risky environments is not a game with a reset button, a golden parachute, or a bailout clause. But, the real goal is character development — you can't become someone in 30 seconds that you haven't practiced being for the last 30 days. Risk has faces and names.

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The Great Splintering

Harvard Business Review

Today's world of bailouts, golden parachutes, sky-high financial-sector salaries — while middle incomes stagnate — seems to be exactly the reverse. The eye of this perfect storm is extreme income inequality that makes the Glided Age look Leninist: London's the most unequal city in the developed world.

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Income Inequality Is a Sustainability Issue

Harvard Business Review

Business by now has a well-developed playbook for dealing with such sustainability issues. Shell Oil doesn’t sell cooking oil, but its Shell Foundation contributes to making cleaner, safer cook stoves available in the developing world. It’s time to recognize that income inequality is a sustainability issue, too. Yes, Switzerland.