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What Every Business Leader Can Learn from David Hume

Editor’s Note: At How Is The Answer, we value and embrace ethical thinking, using the writings of moral philosophers—from Heraclitus and Aristotle, to Mohandas Gandhi and Elie Wiesel—as a guide to reconsider how we think about the working world. In this ongoing series, we offer practical leadership lessons from history’s most important thinkers. Today, we focus on David Hume. David…

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Leadership

It’s Time to Rethink the Job Interview

The working world offers plenty of opportunities for fear and trepidation. But few experiences in that world inspire more anxiety than the job interview. And for good reason. Candidates offer themselves up for judgment, most often by a person or group of people they are meeting for the first time. Today’s job interview process is perhaps more arduous…

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Metrics

New Metrics for a New Reality

In modern business, perhaps the most sacred management adage is that what you measure is what you get. Therefore, it follows, you must manage what you measure. At the same time, Albert Einstein cautioned that, “Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.” All of these sayings contain both truth and wisdom that apply to this day, but as we forge ahead in a new century, we have yet to come to grips with what is, perhaps, an even deeper truth.

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InnovationLeadership

What Every Boss Can Do To Inspire Innovation

The vast majority of business leaders are looking for innovation in all the wrong places. In the 20th century, a CEO could command his employees to, ‘produce 10 times as many widgets as you did last month,’ in the same way that a general might have told a soldier to, ‘Take that hill.’ You could measure such progress easily.

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LeadershipSociety

Why Hillary Clinton Should Choose a Republican Vice President

A few weeks ago Hillary Clinton said that we should “Make America Whole.” She may have said it as an aside, just as a contrast to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again,” but it actually encapsulates an ethos of leadership both deeply rooted in the American political tradition and central to the future of both our country and the corporate world.

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Infographic: To Outperform Is to Outbehave

The world is being dramatically reshaped and now operates differently. The implications for organizations and their leaders are profound, as new frameworks and metrics are now required to achieve resilience and growth. There is a growing need to move beyond measuring only how much business gets done — and bring equal rigor to analyzing how business gets done. The 2016 HOW…

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Tom Friedman Column

The Age of Protest

If you go to The Guardian’s website these days you can find a section that is just labeled “Protest.” So now, with your morning coffee, you can get your news, weather, sports — and protests. I found stories there headlined, “Five Fresh Ideas for the Street Art Agitator in 2016,” “Muslim Woman Ejected From Donald Trump Rally After Silent Protest” and, appropriately, “We Are Living in an Age of Protest.”