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Haier CEO Zhang Ruimin: Challenge yourself, overcome yourself
CEO Zhang Ruimin transformed a bankrupt appliance manufacturer into a respectable brand, and is disrupting Haier again.
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How to prepare for the right heir to take over your business
My daughter is better suited to taking over my business than my son. How do I manage the process?
Volkswagen: The Difficulty of Being Good and the Ease of Being a Cheat
What the Volkswagen saga is telling us is this: We may get away with cheating for some time because of our good reputation. But we will get caught and the repercussions can be terrible
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How to be an objective leader
Seeing things as they are, without letting our biases distort things, is key to taking the right actions, says Elizabeth Thornton in her book, 'The Objective Leader'
The moral imperatives to a lie
Contemporary wisdom has it that any lie is offensive. But is it? As Krishna argues so lucidly in the Mahabharata, reasons exist to lie
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How To Be Your Best
In his book 'Are You Fully Charged?' Tom Rath says, pursue meaningfulness, not money to find joy in work and life
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Get your people to unleash their own potential
The onus of motivation is on the individual, says Susan Fowler in her book 'Why Motivating People Doesn't Work'. It also tells leaders what they can do, but not control, to motivate people
Work Smart. Not Hard
Hard work is the base, but doing the same thing many times over will not help you solve a problem or master a new skill
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Shaping an Organization's Culture
The success of any change is linked to human dynamics—the culture. Yet cultures have a way of maintaining the status quo. Senn Delaney's Larry Senn and Jim Hart tackle that dilemma in their book 'Winning Teams, Winning Cultures'
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