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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. Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Collins, J. HarperBusiness. Dhar, U., &

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic. We calculate that U.S.

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When a Simple Rule of Thumb Beats a Fancy Algorithm

Harvard Business

As they reported in a paper published in 2008 , rule-of-thumb methods were generally as good or even slightly better at predicting individual customer behavior than sophisticated models. What they found surprised them. Ergo: heuristics win. There are other areas where the heuristic advantage might be even greater.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

For my money, “What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions” (2001), which Garvin wrote with Michael Roberto, is the best piece on organizational decision making in HBR’s archive. The central idea is that decision making is a process, not an event. But the main contribution of “Is Yours a Learning Organization?”

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Recession is On the Way: Questioning One's Sanity; Beat the Crowd, Panic Now!

MishTalk

And questions regarding the 2001 recession and ECRI have still not been answered. US Recession The US won''t decouple, just as China did not decouple from the global economy in 2008-2009 (a widely-held thesis I also knocked at the time). They still deny it. This was my call.

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