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01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons

turbulent times. Ernest Shackleton Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill Today’s entrepreneurs would find the tasks involved in organizing and leading an Antarctic expedition in the early 20th century somewhat familiar. Koehn notes that the... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

07 Sep 2021
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Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act

utilities industries is privatized, water in particular. And I chair the organization that regulates water monopolies. They’re big companies. Many of them privately owned now by pension funds, infrastructure funds. And our job is to hold... View Details

10 Mar 2021
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Next Normal

Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Fabio Consoli One year after the pandemic mandated an abrupt shift to working from home for millions of people, organizations are taking a long, hard look at how and where employees work—and why. In... View Details

19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire

become coaches. And so we created this acronym that the first "C" in "COACH" is to care about people. Because people are not going to listen to you until they know you care about them. And then I think our job is to get them in their sweet spot. So, View Details

10 Aug 2022
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Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

within a company to make sure that that doesn't seep in? SWG: Yeah. Absolutely. DM: Yeah. SWG: And, and that means not mandating everybody leave at a certain age and keeping a multi-generational workforce that becomes really important. And many companies are starting... View Details

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond

shoulder. “What the hell’s the Navy doing here?” asked one American airman as five more men emerged. Despite Green’s uniform, the men weren’t there under the auspices of the Navy, but instead at the direction of the Office of Strategic Services, a nimble new... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting

organizations tighten their belts by simply cutting travel across the board? “I think the core issue for everyone is the same, which is how do you buy time?” remarks HBS professor Bill Sahlman, coauthor with Jackie Donnelly Russell (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

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