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There is something immediately arresting about the aphorism, "If you're not at the table, you're on the menu." It does not argue its case or offer advice. It simply presents a scene, and once seen, it is difficult to unsee. One recognizes it before
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Every Thursday night, around 2 AM, my bedroom window would start rattling violently. At first I blamed the garbage truck. But the shaking was too specific. Other windows stayed quiet. Eventually I realized it wasn’t the engine. It was the compaction cycle: the hydraulic ram crushing garbage at a
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Organizations have their own humus — an invisible living layer of trust, memory, and relationships that forms slowly and can be destroyed in an afternoon. Meet the people who live there deliberately.
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Every institution broadcasts a signal through its decisions, not its declarations — and over time, that signal sorts for exactly the people it deserves. The question isn't what signal you want to send. It's what your attrition data says you're already sending.
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A new NBER working paper forced over a million real tradeoffs across 126 dimensions of life from 3,300 respondents. When people can’t just endorse everything, when they actually have to choose, a clear hierarchy emerges. Family well-being, financial security, and health dominate. Children’s health alone carries
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The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has operated without a conductor since 1972, winning Grammy Awards through distributed leadership and collaborative decision-making. Their model challenges fundamental assumptions about management: what if coordination doesn't require a central authority? What if the pe
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PwC is one of the few companies to publicly release its diversity data. What was behind that choice? One of my aspirations early in my tenure was that I wanted to be transparent. I think we’re going through a golden age of transparency, and you need to lead by
Management and Organizations
Corporate governance in two paragraphs: Netflix shareholders voted on Thursday to reject the lucrative pay packages of the company’s leaders, including the co-chief executives Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters. The vote is nonbinding and can be overruled by the company’s board of directors the next time it
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Greg Case: The most compelling and durable source of resilience is organizational. About 15 years ago, we recognized that our clients’ needs were outpacing our ability to innovate, so we took targeted actions to improve. This included making structural changes to operate as a truly global firm, which we call
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John Naughton is surprised at journalists and commentators being horrified at corporations doing despicable things. Don’t they understand that a corporations is essentially a superintelligent AI which is entirely focussed on achieving its purpose — which in the case of corporations these days is to maximise shareholder value? That’s
EME
Members of the House of Beautiful Business community shared ideas on how to improve meetings. Before you join your next meeting, have a read-through of what they came up with. See what the repetition is saying (or not saying). Even better: before you schedule your next, ask yourself: does
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In response to an article in The Economist about the need for middle managers, Michele Zanini writes: Just because the ladder has fewer rungs doesn't mean leadership opportunities are scarce-quite the opposite. By giving people the ability to gain influence (and compensation) based on accomplishment as opposed