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In Focus: Leadership
by Stephen Bernhut | July / August 2010
In the last years of her life, my mother lived in a geriatric hospital. One of the regular visitors, whose mother’s room was just down the hall, would smile at my mother each time she saw her and say, “When...
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In focus: Managing complexity
by Stephen Bernhut | May / June 2010
Maybe it’s time to revive IBM’s old acronym, (KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid). Yes, simplifying a complex issue in order to understand it – like the cascading effect of an environmental event – is tempting. It even can work, though...
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HAS ANYONE AROUND HERE SEEN OVERSIGHT?
by Stephen Bernhut | May / June 2010
It would grant a very wide birth to those responsible, but the fact is that almost every business calamity in the past two years was caused not because those responsible were doing their job and simply messed up, but rather...
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In Focus: Leadership
by Stephen Bernhut | March / April 2010
Top-down leadership has had better-known practitioners, but perhaps none as prolific as one José Maria Velasco. Certainly none articulated the top-down principle as graphically – perfectly, really – as Señor Velasco. “Give me a balcony and I will become president,”...
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In Focus: Asia Pacific
by Stephen Bernhut | January / February 2010
I write these words moments after news has come that China’s fourth-quarter economic performance not only beat expectations but also put the country on course to overtake Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy. Like a stock that continues a...
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