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What You Need to Know About Globalization’s Radical New Phase

BCG

Article Wednesday, July 20, 2016. For instance, the growth of global gross domestic product (GDP)—one of the traditional metrics of globalization—fell from a high of 6% in the 1960s to 3% in 2015. Is globalization over? Some commentators consider the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union to be a sign that it is.

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Why Companies Can’t Turn Customer Insights into Growth

BCG

Article Tuesday, August 16, 2016. On the left side, record each mention of an internal topic, such as financial or operational performance, plans, metrics, organization, employees, or culture. Consumer-facing companies in developed economies have experienced little or no growth since the global recession of 2008 and 2009.

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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. References: Anderson, R., & & Adams, W. & Lord, R. Dhar, U., &

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business

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. In 2016, another event focused on the opioid-use crisis in Massachusetts and resulted in 18 innovation proposals.

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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business

Beginning in the Spring of 2016, our workplace analytics group worked with commercial real estate company CBRE to calculate the cost savings associated with relocating a 1,200-person Microsoft engineering organization from five buildings into four other buildings. At Microsoft, we went about answering this question in a couple of ways.

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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). Macro Conclusion We are in an “in between period” where the US will slow down and ultimately hand over the growth engine to emerging market by the earliest Q4-2015 but firmly in 2016.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

Inequity and discrimination result from failure, one person at a time, one action at a time (Greenleaf, 2008). Section 4: Two Key Leadership Behaviors and Attributes Organizational culture is everyone's responsibility, and leaders play a fundamental role in influencing and supporting culture (Schein & Schein, 2016). Greenleaf, R.

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