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What's Servant Leadership?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Businesses need leaders able to take action amid economic uncertainty and operate effectively in a digital workplace with a diverse workforce. Employees are more likely to provide constructive criticism and engage in productive conflict without fear of exclusion or retaliation. Contemporary Management Research, 11 (4), 327-349.

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6 questions to ask to find out the root cause of under performance in your team

Halo Psych

One of the mistakes I see some managers make, when talking about a team member’s under performance, is to make it personal. In my own experience as a line manager I very rarely found that someone deliberately set out to do their worst and under perform. Is the root cause to do with their relationship with you, their line manager?

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List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong

Tom Spencer

in Management Consulting. Value Partners Management Consulting. Established in 1989, Accenture operates in more than 120 countries worldwide. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Founded in 1983, A&M operates in 38 cities worldwide. Definitions.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Political Atom Bomb.

MishTalk

The Socialists also declared that they would no longer co-operate with the Rajoy government, only weeks after the two sides issued a joint declaration setting out Spain’s interests ahead of the June European summit. Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Transforming Today’s Bad Jobs into Tomorrow’s Good Jobs

Harvard Business

Companies that offer good jobs today — with decent wages, predictable schedules, and opportunities for success and growth — do so by combining investment in people with operational choices that increase their employees’ productivity and contributions. We call this approach the Good Jobs Strategy.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic.

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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business

She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. FB Holdings had made it through the financial crisis of 2008 without losing money—but the climate control systems divisions, a Tier 1 automotive supplier, had not fared as well. .