This week’s links:
- Strategy: An Executive’s Definition: from strategy+business. “It is the result of choices made to maximize long-term value.”
- The executive’s guide to better listening: from McKinsey Quarterly. “Strong listening skills can make a critical difference in the performance of senior executives, but few are able to cultivate them.”
- Why do nations fail? from Defining Ideas (Hoovers). “It has to do with how societies are politically organized.”
- India flunks its growth test: by Sadanand Dhume in WSJ. “How quickly will Indian politicians heed the alarm being sounded by slowing growth and undertake reforms to unleash the country’s potential?”
- India’s Assembly Elections: by Pratap Bhanu Mehta. “Verdict in: voters choose empowerment over patronage.”
