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

Harmonious Workplaces

I did this while attending UChicago and picking up extra cash cleaning industrial carpets, being a production artist for GES Exposition Services during the summer, or working a Blockbuster. In 2006, after attaining my MBA, I answered the clarion call of entrepreneurship and started my own business, Behold! Signs and Graphic Solutions.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

18% reported a failure to close a sale. Your degree of self-awareness , self-management, motivation, empathy and interpersonal skills make up your emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence helps you build better relationships, reduce workplace stress, create productive conflict and improve employee retention. Solomon, A.,

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models? How effectively has the company adapted its legacy business to change and disruption, giving it new life? That vision prompted Danone to divest product lines such as biscuits and beer while broadening its core dairy franchise.

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Research Shows That Smaller M&A Deals Work Out Better

Harvard Business

The giant German publisher made a decisive move from print to digital by making 67 mostly small acquisitions from 2006 to 2012, while launching 90 publications organically and divesting eight. You meet the bar on this lever if you are among the top 20% in your industry in your ratio of capital spending to sales. Corning spent a net $3.2

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Your Organization Wastes Time. Here’s How to Fix It.

Harvard Business

Look closely, and you’ll find that most companies have stretched their brands and product portfolios to customers and markets in which they are undifferentiated and profits are weak. While the former approach is friendlier from a change management perspective, we usually find that it leads to only incremental change.

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