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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. Dhar, U., & & Mishra, P. Journal of Management Research, 1(4), 254.

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Keynes Is Dead, Abenomics Fizzles, US Fails to Reach Escape Velocity, Stimulus Fatigue

MishTalk

Economist Andy Xie has an interesting article in CaixinOnline that contains his views on 2014. The global economy is unlikely to accelerate in 2014. Abenomics is likely to fizzle out in 2014. The 2008 crisis prompted a pause. In the decade before the 2008 financial crisis, trade was driving growth.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business

The Helix (Healthcare Innovation Exchange) Centre opened in 2014 to respond to increasing pressures on the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation (CFI) was established in 2008, becoming the first healthcare innovation center to employ a team of in-house designers. Innovation Centers.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

By the end of 2014, they had improved fuel efficiency approximately 87% compared to the 2005 baseline. In that year, these improvements resulted in 15,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions avoided and savings of nearly $11 million. In its survey of over 200 institutional investors, 59.1% Some 62.4%

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

MishTalk

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). Four Evaluation Metrics Doug Short at Advisors perspectives has an even more interesting chart of valuations in his post Equity Valuations, Recessions and Stock Market Declines.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well. After all, “short-termism” does not correspond to any single quantifiable metric. The differences were dramatic.

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Earnings "Beat the Street" Manipulation Underway as Profit Warnings Mount

MishTalk

That’s above the 81% that warned Q1 2014, and the five-year average of 68%. Key Metrics Earnings Growth: For Q115, year-over-year earnings for the S&P 500 are projected to decline by 4.6%. Don''t Be Fooled Please consider this CNBC report from April of 2014: Companies are Beating Earnings Estimates But Don’t Be Fooled.

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