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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Compelling evidence indicates that leadership moderates company performance and results. But, maybe you feel the importance of effective leadership is often overstated and are somewhat skeptical of the real impact leadership has on a business. Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures.

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Coronavirus: Leadership during a Crisis

CaseInterview.com

The need for effective leadership is especially acute during a major crisis. First, I have helped my CEO clients navigate multiple industry, capital market, and economic crises over the past 25 years. There was 9/11 in 2001. In a crisis, good leadership requires four things: Provide Accurate, Frequently-Updated Information.

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Top Five Lessons Learned from My 16 Years as an “Interim VP Marketing”

Women in Consulting

:: Since founding my consulting company in 2001, I’ve been serving Silicon Valley CEOs as an interim VP marketing. Usually they are running smallish companies and either haven’t yet brought a full-time VP marketing on board or they just lost their VP marketing for some reason. Competition is a good thing.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

L&D, goal-setting theory of motivation, and leadership training took shape during those five years with the band. Here I learned how to improve performance by working as a team and the value of transformational leadership from intrinsically motivated people.

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BearingPoint Interview Preparation – Mystery or History?

Management Consulted

On February 8th, 2001, KPMG Consulting, LLC, went public on the NASDAQ starting at $18 per share under the ticker “KCIN” Their IPO was 6 months delayed due to the quickly declining high-tech consulting services market. This leadership has brought much better stability and continuity to the business. Capital Markets.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player.

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Why Visionary CEOs Never Have Visionary Successors

Harvard Business

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job.