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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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Servant Leaders Achieve Extraordinary Results

Rick Conlow

Consequently, 82% of managers fail and 85% of employees are sadly disengaged worldwide. Adam Grant, management researcher and professor at the Wharton School of Business, shows in his book Give and Take that servant leaders are more productive and more highly regarded by employees. Servant Leaders are Better than Great.

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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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Hedge Funds: Purpose, Business Model, and Strategies

Tom Spencer

Their Purpose A hedge fund is privately managed investment fund that employs various investment strategies with the aim of generating superior returns, striving to deliver positive returns even in adverse market conditions. The Hedge Fund Business Model Hedge funds obtain investment funds from accredited investors.

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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

This is alarming, given evidence a direct positive correlation exists between employee commitment to strategy and employee involvement in strategy development. Here is what leaders need to know to be more inclusive in strategy development and how to overcome three common barriers. Development. The first step is to listen.

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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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How Leadership Self-Awareness Improves Financial Performance

Organizational Talent Consulting

Self-aware leaders are not naive about their accidental habits and are better positioned to develop life-changing leadership habits. Leadership & Organization Development Journal , 32(2), 127-149. SA Journal of Human Resource Management , 19(2), e1-e13. Bratton, V. & Brown, F. Goldstein, G., & Deluca, J. Gleason, M.