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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(6), 1438-1446. Kouzes, J., &

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business

During my years at OSHA, where I served as the Assistant Secretary of Labor from 2009 through the beginning of 2017, I received several reports of safety system failures at DuPont facilities. Injuries and catastrophic events, in addition to being tragic, are evidence that production is not being managed correctly.

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Top Consulting Firms

CaseInterview.com

Culture : Is the work environment healthy or toxic? It has an academic culture focused on continuous improvement.Intellectual rigor and factual analysis skills are vital components of success, as is a can-do attitude with an optimistic focus. Hours are long, and the culture can be demanding. Employee Satisfaction. Diversity.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. This year we added a carbon metric.

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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When Companies Should Invest in Training Their Employees — and When They Shouldn’t

Harvard Business

companies spent over $90 billion dollars on training and development activities in 2017, a year-over-year increase of 32.5 %. Given these systemic issues, it’s unlikely a training program would have had a productive, or sustainable outcome. The culture reinforced asking permission for everything. Photodisc/Getty Images.

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Why There’s No Such Thing as a Corporate Entrepreneur

Harvard Business

Real entrepreneurs constantly worry about things that could prove fatal to their company: cash crunches, technical problems with the product, the emergence of a well-funded rival. ” By June 2017, all three had been cut loose and their projects shelved. Fear of failure. Private vs. Public.