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Background: After the race to the South Pole ended in 1912 with Roald Amundsen’s conquest, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874–1922) turned his attention to what he said was the one remaining great object of Antarctic journeying—the crossing of the continent…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Chris Murphy and published by InformationWeek magazine. To read the complete article, please click here. This is how two tech leaders do it, and we’d like to hear more tactics from you.…
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Here is an excerpt from an article featured by Texas CEO magazine in which TD Industries chairman Jack Lowe Jr. explains how trust and accountability are essential building blocks for success. To read the complete article, please click here. * *…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Marc Tracy and published by The New Republic magazine. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * “FiveThirtyEight is drawing huge traffic,” New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson…
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Here is a preview of an article written by John P. Kotter for the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please…
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During its first 100 years of existence, more than 683,000 Americans lost their lives, with the Civil War accounting for 623,026 of that total (91.2%). Comparatively, in the next 100 years, another estimated 625,000 Americans died through two World Wars…
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In Redesigning the Future: Systems Approach to Societal Problems published by John S. Wiley & Sons (1974), Russell L. Ackoff provides a number of valuable insights when discussing the challenges that leaders face, notably coping with complexities and frustrations created…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael Watkins for the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click…
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Steve Coll’s Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, published by Penguin Press and Allen Lane. The book is a hard-hitting investigation of the notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation, beginning with the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 and closing with the Deepwater…
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How “social intelligence” can guide decisions
Here is a brief excerpt from an article from The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company and written by Martin Harrysson, Estelle Metayer, and Hugo Sarrazin, in which they explain why, by offering decision makers rich real-time data, social…
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