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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. In the 1940’s, Peter Drucker praised the company for its product decentralization but criticized it, even back then, for treating employees as a feudal cost center rather than a base of knowledge and potential.

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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Rick Conlow

Increased Employee Engagement: According to a Gallup survey , organizations with highly engaged employees outperform their competitors by 147% in earnings per share. This may involve conducting surveys, focus groups, or other forms of feedback to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the current situation.

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Big Data in Marketing – It Is Here To Stay

Tom Spencer

This is especially important for marketers whose job is to connect consumers and products. Instead of collecting survey responses from customers (“customer-oriented marketing”), companies are trying to observe their customers in context. Product recommendations have been commonplace in most online shops such as Amazon for many years.

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We Shouldn’t Always Need a “Business Case” to Do the Right Thing

Harvard Business

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.” Metrics Are Not Your Friends.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

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. According to the Edelman trust framework, trust in leadership is given based on competence and ethical behaviors.

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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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What Happens to Mental Health at Work When Our Devices Know How We Feel?

Harvard Business

One recent global research survey of employee assistance programs found that, combined, employee anxiety, stress, and depression accounted for over 80% of all emotional health cases in 2014, compared with 55% in 2012. Denys Argyriou/unsplash. Distracted? Overwhelmed?