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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

Great leaders dream of a better future – from business sustainability to growing future leaders, increasing speed to market, or operating with greater purpose. This is alarming, given evidence a direct positive correlation exists between employee commitment to strategy and employee involvement in strategy development. Development.

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

An innovation culture supports beliefs and feelings about the importance of innovation, as well as habits that encourage research and development. A financial services company engaged in investment banking and capital markets estimated the customer benefit of the Space X Falcon 9 reusable rocket. million per launch. & Gołembski, G.

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What is digital currency?

Tom Spencer

Since the advent of Bitcoin in 2008, digital currency has been a growing trend and a growing area of interest for consultants, businesses, fintech investors, central banks, and governments. This also includes Bitcoin (created in 2008) and Ethereum (created in 2015). Reading Time: 6 minutes. What is the value of digital currency?

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

A controlled study involving leaders across different markets found a positive correlation between the leader's effectiveness and employee retention, sales, margin, labor costs, and net profit. times greater financial returns than market averages. The best organizations are made up of the best leaders. Eisenbeiss, S., & Boerner, S.

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Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs

Harvard Business

However, 48% of the mid-sized world market leaders come from Germany. Nearly all of them survived the great recession of 2008-2009. Drucker Forum 2017: Growth and Inclusive Prosperity. This article is one in a series related to the 9th Global Peter Drucker Forum, taking place in November 2017 in Vienna, Austria.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets.

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Would a Hard Brexit Cripple the EU’s Digital Economy?

Harvard Business

growth in the first quarter of 2017, accompanied by a fall in the value of the pound and rising inflation. To what extent do governments enable technology to develop, through use or through legal frameworks? They are tasked with brokering an exit from the EU at the same time that the British economy is showing signs of stress.