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One Leadership Development Self-Assessment for True Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

No leader I know sets out to develop bad habits. Here is one leadership development tool that creates the clarity you need to achieve your goals. Also, I don't believe the most significant barrier for many leaders is creating a greater desire for better habits. Wilson, T., & & Gilbert, D. & Landis, D.

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Rebranding ADEI for the Culture Wars

UPD Consulting

When I founded UPD in 2005, the mission was simple: help build better, higher performing, and more resilient organizations. 2005 was an interesting year. 2005 was an interesting year. But these developments, predictably, have brought considerable backlash. A new site called YouTube had just been launched.

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How Tony’s Chocolonely Created a Purpose-Driven (and Profitable) Supply Chain

Harvard Business

In this article, the authors look at the experience of Tony’s Chocolonely, a Dutch chocolate brand founded in 2005, which set itself a mission to sell 100% slavery-free chocolate. In the cocoa industry, for example, the average farmer cultivates between three and five hectares to earn less than two dollars a day.

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Say Goodbye to Strategic Planning? What’s Next?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Develop scenarios: This step can be sped up by selecting already developed scenarios. Ranking helps avoid cognitive errors in scenario planning. Choose the central theme: These are the most uncertain and essential driving forces selected from the ranking in the prior step. If you decide to build your scenarios, you should aim for four.

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Servant Leaders Achieve Extraordinary Results

Rick Conlow

Most importantly, Sipe & Frick study (authors of the 7 Pillars of Servant Leadership ), found these results over a ten-year period (1995-2005). They create winning cultures through authenticity, teamwork, and personal development. Over 130 micro-learning and career development resources at your fingertips! percent return.

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Back to the Basics in Leadership and Life with former EVP of Operations for the Walt Disney World Resort Lee Cockerell

Consulting Matters

Want a common sense, down-to-earth approach for developing leaders, growing organizations, and creating a profitable consulting or coaching business? One of Lee's major and lasting legacies was the creation of Disney Great Leader Strategies which was used to train and develop the 7000 leaders at Walt Disney World.

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White Americans’ Mortality Rates Are Rising. Something Similar Happened in Russia from 1965 to 2005

Harvard Business

For mortality rates to rise instead of fall is extremely rare in developed countries except as a result of war or pandemic. From 1965 to 2005 the mortality rates for nonelderly Russian men and women rose by an average of 1.5% By 2005 adult Russian men were nearly twice as likely to die prematurely as they had been in 1965.

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