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  • 5 Dec 2016
    Bert A. Spector

    Race Matters

    “The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line,” W.E.B. DuBois famously observed of the United States.  Despite the occasional proclamations of a post-racial society in the aftermath of Barack Obama’s 2008 election, race has continued to dominate American life well into the next century, a fact startlingly brought home in […]

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  • 17 Oct 2016
    Bert A. Spector

    “The Boss” Is the Boss

    Bert Spector on Bruce Springsteen and leadership.

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  • 28 Sep 2016
    Bert A. Spector

    Let’s Not Waste a Great Opportunity

    With six weeks remaining until the U.S. Presidential Election, the race is locked in a virtual deadlock.  That fact, in and of itself, is pretty remarkable given that a woman is as likely to be the next president as a man.  I understand that readers in countries such as the UK and Germany will not find that […]

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  • 19 Sep 2016
    Bert A. Spector

    The Myth of Pragmatic Business Leadership

    In a just-published research piece, a group of scholars from Harvard and University College of London posed a significant challenge to the supposed benefits of “fact-based” reasoning.[1]  The way people respond to factual arguments – in this case, the researchers used scientifically-based findings concerning climate change – is predetermined by their previous beliefs.  Exposure to […]

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  • 24 Aug 2016
    Bert A. Spector

    The Year of Magical (Leadership) Thinking

    Many commentators were stunned when, in his acceptance speech at the Republican national convention, Donald Trump insisted that “I alone” can fix the “crisis’ that besets the United States.  Things “will all change when I take office.” Although it isn’t easy or comfortable, let’s put aside for a moment the specifics of his indictment of […]

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  • 27 Jan 2016
    Photograph of the heading of Corporate Social Entrepreneurship by Christine A Hemingway

    Into the Intro: Corporate Social Entrepreneurship

    We go Into the Intro of Christine A Hemingway's Corporate Social Entrepreneurship: Integrity Within (2014).

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  • 24 Nov 2015
    Man grabbing environment with a city on his back.
    Christopher Wright, Daniel Nyberg

    How environmental destruction became a business opportunity

    Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg, co-authors of 'Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction' (2015), look at the role of business in the climate change crisis.

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  • 21 Sep 2015
    a green arrow pushing against multiple red arrows
    David H. Cropley, Arthur J. Cropley

    Innovation Measurement – Getting it Right

    Measuring innovation in organisations is a tricky business. What inputs drive the innovation process? What outputs and outcomes result from it? What parameters connect the inputs to the outputs in a meaningful way? Add to this the different types of organisation doing the innovating – not-for-profits like charities; local and national government departments; for-profit manufacturers […]

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