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- Jim Rogers will step down as Duke Energy CEO
Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers will step down next year in a deal with regulators relating to a controversy in which Duke's board ousted CEO Bill Johnson just hours after he took over the job during the summer. Duke hasn't admitted wrongdoing relating to its takeover of Progress Energy, which Johnson had led, but agreed to significant management restructuring as part of the settlement. "The whole saga has been a bit of a head-scratcher to begin with, and hopefully this is the end of it," said Paul Patterson, a utility analyst for Glenrock Associates. Indianapolis Business Journal/Bloomberg
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- Leadership lessons from a sweaty yoga session
Hot yoga, in which the studio is heated to 96 degrees and humidified to about 50%, isn't particularly comfortable and there's always a temptation to cut out early, writes Scott Eblin. Still, Eblin writes, it's only by staying in the room when the going gets tough that you learn about yourself and are able to make progress. "Whether it's a 96 degree yoga classroom, a conference room where you're hashing it out or a job that just got a lot harder, your life as a leader will regularly present choice points on whether or not you stay in the room," Eblin writes. EblinGroup.com/Next Level Blog
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- Burger joints' obscene branding could backfire, experts say
More fast-food chains are going with unpleasant or obscene-sounding brand names. The restaurant chains -- the names of which aren't repeatable -- see outrageousness as a brand asset, but experts are betting the strategy will backfire. "If the name doesn't imply good food, or a memorable dining experience, you could be shooting yourself in the foot," says Jake Hancock of the Naming Group. Bloomberg Businessweek
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- Why daily deals aren't the future of e-commerce
Daily-deal companies such as LivingSocial and Groupon were once tech-investor darlings, but the industry has collapsed in recent months. With hindsight, it's clear that the deals companies didn't offer sustainable benefits to local companies, and with minimal entry barriers, it was hard for any one company to stake out a dominant position, writes Dan Mitchell. CNNMoney/Fortune
(11/29), CNNMoney
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- Abraham Lincoln, innovation hunter
When Abraham Lincoln's boat got stuck on a sandbar, the future president improvised a buoyancy aid using floating barrels -- and then promptly patented his invention. Protecting inventions through the patent system spurs innovation by adding "the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things," Lincoln later explained. InventHelp Invention and Technology News
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- India is scraping the bottom of the bathtub, analysts say
India's economy failed to impress analysts in the most recent quarter, posting 5.3% growth, down a fraction from the previous quarter's figure. This suggests India is going through "a 'bathtub shaped' recovery with some bottom scraping in coming quarters," HSBC Global analysts say. Reuters
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- Don't let your meetings get stuck in the bike shed
Too many high-level meetings fall prey to "bike-shedding" -- the notion that smart, powerful people will quickly sign off on important issues they barely understand but will spend hours arguing over trivial issues they think they understand, such as whether to build a bike shed. Avoid this trap by giving your team the information they need to make big decisions and shielding them from the small ones, advises Dan McCarthy. "If you’re the leader, exercise your decision making authority on the trivial stuff," he writes. SmartBrief/SmartBlog on Leadership
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- Why Wile E. Coyote would love Amazon.com
Amazon's free-shipping deals extend to some surprisingly bulky purchases -- up to and including a 1,509-pound safe that would ordinarily cost $700 to ship. "These days, if Wile E. Coyote wanted a safe to drop on the Road Runner, he would be better off ordering from Amazon than Acme, which probably charged for shipping," writes Jeremy Olshan. MarketWatch
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