Those components of the traditional management paradigm are the natural consequences of choosing shareholder value as the goal of the firm.

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Overrewarding employees ranges from protecting employees from natural consequences, excusing them from standard practices, making exceptions to prop up their performance, to outright promoting them in spite of outlandish past behavior or history with the company.

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Now, paradoxically, the large population that civilisation makes possible means loneliness is commonplace and with it consequences that natural selection, which is blind to the future, has not yet had time to deal with.

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The program, launched in September 2001, focuses on reform of electric power markets, the geopolitical consequences of newly emerging global natural gas markets, energy services for the world's poor, and managing climate change and other environmental consequences of modern energy systems.

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"Increasing the nation's use of natural gas for electricity generation could result in adverse economic consequences, " the report said, noting that natural gas prices are fickle and that fuel switching on a large scale would require regulators to approve more pipeline and storage capacity.

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The earthquake and tsunami in Japan were natural disasters with wide spread economic consequences for both Japan and the global economy.

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With other rainforest regions such as the Amazon also being depleted rapidly -- the percentage of the earth's land surface covered by rainforest is estimated to have slipped from 14 percent to around six percent -- the sudden disappearance of millions of hectares of the earth's natural defenses against climate change is likely to have consequences far beyond local communities and wildlife.

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If 4 billion years of natural selection have not dealt with them it suggests that suppressing them may have worse consequences than not suppressing them.

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