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Why Character Matters in Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

Evidence from workplace studies on the benefits of character suggests that leaders with high character scores outperform others on company performance metrics. Leadership behaviors guide actions, but a leader's character determines how and if the leader acts. Great leadership is a combination of competence, character, and commitment.

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Power Can Corrupt Leaders. Compassion Can Save Them

Harvard Business

In 2016 John Stumpf, then the CEO of Wells Fargo, was called before Congress to explain a massive scandal. The recordings of the hearing are a shocking but illustrative case study of how leaders are at risk of being corrupted by power. Compassion is clearly a hugely overlooked skill in leadership training.

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Why Public Health Organizations Should Partner with Academic Institutes - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM QATAR FOUNDATION

Harvard Business

research study , which observed that 30–40 percent of patients in the United States “do not receive care complying with current research evidence.” A case study for what such collaboration can look like is the healthcare sector in Qatar. The recommendation was echoed in a recent U.S.

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Corporate Diversity Initiatives Should Include White Men

Harvard Business

Thus most of the work of diversity and inclusion approaches in companies to date has focused on empowering the “out” groups or training the “in” groups about their unconscious biases. The Trump phenomenon and the Brexit vote are case studies in the dangers of ignoring or discounting resistance to change.

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How to Beat Mid-Career Malaise

Harvard Business

Case Study #1: Make small adjustments to your environment, and look for ways to enhance your job description. “Instead, I began to approach my job as one in which my success was judged by whether or not my colleagues began to adhere to a vision of excellent communication, servant leadership, and team success.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. The government invested in training and long-term infrastructure and established high-level goals for the country to guide activity. Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction.