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Inside: This Week In Managing
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LEADING WITH PURPOSE: ALAINA LOVE
Dousing the Passion for Greed Companies would do well to take a page from Whole Foods, which limits executive pay to no more than 19 times the average worker wage
WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP
How Women Leaders Find Success and Happiness Research shows there are five practices that can lead to satisfaction on the job and at home, and they can be mastered by anyone
MARSHALL & FRIENDS
When Is It Time to Keep Your Mouth Shut? When leaders think they're trying improve the quality of other people's good ideas, they're often just trying to prove how smart they are
DIVERSITY
A New Executive-Search Business Model Heidrick & Struggles and its Inclusion Network of minority- and women-owned search boutiques is helping Marsh & McLennan with diversity hiring
DIVERSITY
Disabled Workers; Employer Fears Are Groundless Studies show that hiring the disabled does not lead to higher accommodation costs, worker comp, or sick leave, yet these myths persist
HARVARD BUSINESS ONLINE
• From Harvard Business
Twitter's Business Model Is it brilliant or nonexistent? A little of both, according to blogger David L. Smith
VIEWPOINT
Myths that Undermine Decision-Making If executives and their teams would examine some common misconceptions, an often flawed decision-making process could be improved, writes Bob Frisch
MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP
When the Laid-Off Are Better Off Victims of Boeing layoffs, researchers found, were less depressed and drank less than those who remained
MANAGEMENT
Climate-Proof Your Business To learn how to help your business deal with impending water shortages, consider the management secrets of Kalahari Bushmen
LIZ RYAN: THE WORKPLACE
Sleepy Interviewer? Here's How to Follow Up The person who conducted your interview was only half-awake. Proceed almost as though you hadn't interviewed at all, but with one advantage
CORPORATE EXECUTIVE BOARD
• From Corporate Executive Board
The Enemy Within Your Planning Process A look at the biases that could be creating a flaw in your planning process
HARVARD BUSINESS ONLINE
• From Harvard Business
Why Budgeting Drives Us Batty Ron Ashkenas discusses three common budget complexity-creators and how to conquer them
HARVARD BUSINESS ONLINE
• From Harvard Business
How Successful CEOs Respond to Failure Failure may be avoidable but it's not preventable, says David Silverman
THE INFLUENTIAL LEADER
Finding the Freedom Not to Fail Even well-meaning workers doubt ambitious company plans will come to fruition. How to break self-defeating patterns that hinder employee execution
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