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Strategy & Leadership

Getting Tensions Right

by Ken Favaro and Saj-nicole Joni
How CEOs can turn conflict, dissent, and disagreement into a powerful tool for driving performance.
 
Sustainability

Reinventing the
City to Combat
Climate Change

by Nick Pennell, Sartaz Ahmed, and Stefan Henningsson
How the world’s cities develop their infrastructure over the next 30 years will determine the future path of global warming.
Sustainability


Destination: Green Tourism

by Jürgen Ringbeck
 
In an era of environmental consciousness, every locale that wants to remain attractive and competitive needs a strategy for sustainability.
Organizations & People


At Zappos,
Culture Pays

by Dick Richards
 
The thriving Internet shoe retailer has made its name and a lot of money by being eccentric.
 

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Thought Leaders

An Interview with
Lawrence Burns

GM’s former head of R&D has a bold vision of how the automobile will evolve in the cities of the 21st century.
Creative Mind: Charles Landry knows what makes cities great: distinction, variety, and flow
INTERVIEW: C.K. Prahalad looked back, before his recent death, on his career and talked about the way ideas evolve
Interview: Girish Paranjpe, co-CEO of India’s Wipro Technologies, is responding to the economic crisis with reinvestment
Business Literature
Knowledge Review

What Experience Would You Like with That?

How a new view of consumers changed the way we think about products, companies, and economies.
Books in Brief A review of Smart Growth, by
Edward D. Hess
Books in Brief A review of The Rational Optimist, by Matt Ridley
Recent Research

When It Pays to Stay in School

Students who enter the job market while the economy is strong find success earlier and earn higher wages throughout their careers than those who join the workforce during a down economy.
PRODUCTIVE MEETINGS When new information is introduced at the start of a meeting and opinions are held until the end, groups make smarter choices
CEO Pay Rising A few inflated compensation packages have led to a surge in overall chief executive pay over the past 20 years
HOUSING BUBBLE Predatory lending played a large part in the crisis, but also to blame were affluent homeowners who knowingly bought houses they couldn’t afford
Effective Online Ads Advertisements that are both targeted and highly visible can turn off viewers by seeming too intrusive
Recommended on Booz.com

Video: Leading Outside the Lines

From the Katzenbach Center at Booz & Company: Jon Katzenbach and Zia Khan discuss the guiding principles behind their new book Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the Informal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results.