RESEARCH & IDEAS Why Leaders Lose Their Way Published: June 6‚ 2011 Author: Bill George Dominique Strauss-Kahn is just the latest in a string of high-profile leaders making the perp walk. What went wrong‚ and how can we learn from it? Professor Bill George says these are not bad people; rather‚ they’ve lost their moral bearings. To stay grounded executives must prepare themselves to confront enormous complexities and pressures. Key concepts include: • Leaders who move up have greater freedom
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of what he wants the company to be like. “Berkshire is my painting‚ so it should look the way I want it to look.” (Warren Buffett‚ founder of Berkshire) Operations issues include analyzing and counter react to the external environment such as customer’s demand; etc.
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Warren Buffett Business Masterminds By Robert Heller Introduction • All his investments were channeled through Berkshire Hathaway. • Buffett snubbed high-tech super growth stars and bough massive stakes in ordinary shares in long-established giants like AMEX‚ Coca Cola and Gillette • Never invest unless you can find something worth buying • He is interested only in realities and is free from any illusions • Common sense and consistent rationality win the
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Benjamin Graham. A simple‚ honest man with grandfatherly looks‚ Buffett is considered an intellectual genius who makes rapid decisions and decides on a major purchase with just a few days of research. Today‚ Warren Buffett the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway is unquestionably the most successful investor of our times. For the last four decades‚ Warren Buffett’s annual letters to shareholders are a very valuable source in understanding his investment style and outlook about economy. Focus on
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birthday. He attended Boston Latin School and Harvard University‚ where he majored in business. In 1937‚ while attending a Boston Symphony concert‚ Bernstein was immensely touched by the passionate performance of conductor Dmitri Mitropoulos that Bernstein decided to devote his life to music. Around the age of 22‚ Bernstein started to expand his musical training by attending the Curtis Institute and the Berkshire Music Center. While at the Berkshire Musical Festival‚ Bernstein met Serge Koussevitsky
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Sudha Murty | | Born | Sudha Kulkarni August 19‚ 1950 (age 61) Shiggaon‚ Karnataka‚ India | Residence | Bangalore‚ Karnataka‚ India | Citizenship | India | Alma mater | BVB College of Engineering Indian Institute of Science | Occupation | Chairperson‚ Infosys Foundation | Spouse | N.R. Narayana Murthy | Sudha Murty (Kannada: ಸುಧಾ ಮೂರ್ತಿ )(also spelled Sudha Murthy; née Kulkarni) is an Indian social worker and author. Mrs. Murthy began her professional career as a computer scientist
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financing to help meet its current cash flow needs. One group of investors led by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway along with Lehman Brothers offered Williams a solution with a one-year $900 million loan. Under the terms of the agreement‚ each lender would loan $450 million to Williams Production RMT‚ a Williams subsidiary‚
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aspirations for saving the gay community that eventually leads him to be considered the “only screamer among them.” Because of Ned’s threatening and blunt personality‚ the organization decided to elect Bruce as president because according to a fellow partner in the organization‚ “he’s gorgeous–and all the kids on Christopher Street and Fire Island will feel a bit more comfortable following him.” Bruce is an amicable man who remains secretive about being gay‚ in which contradicting the premise of his organization
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Workplace Writing Skills Developing Clarity and Accuracy A Resource to Supplement Existing Published Materials Christine Polk Workplace Coordinator and Instructor crspolk@aol.com South Berkshire Educational Collaborative‚ 662 Stockbridge Rd. Gt. Barrington‚ MA 01230 © Christine Polk‚ 2009 Permission is given for this resource to be copied for use with students. Funded by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education This is a blank page for copying the whole
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of money for his lessons. He did not need much practice and his father became impressed. For his bar mitzvah‚ his father bought him a baby grand piano. He attended Boston Latin School and met his mentor‚ Helen Coates. After graduation‚ he entered Harvard University where he studied music theory with Arthur Tillman and counterpoint with Walter Piston. While attending
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