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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

An Examination of the Importance of Leadership Behaviors and Attributes on Shaping Culture Executive Summary Organizational culture is a critical factor in financially successful companies. Leaders with dynamic transformational leadership attributes and behaviors are effective culture change agents.

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How to Identify and Accelerate the Right Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

A lot of businesses are experiencing a leadership shortage. CEOs need a strong leadership pipeline to thrive, but it's not easy to build. In fact, perceptions of leadership effectiveness and readiness often differ between executives and the frontline. Leadership development investments don't have to be a big gamble.

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Coronavirus: Leadership during a Crisis

CaseInterview.com

The need for effective leadership is especially acute during a major crisis. There was the Great Recession in 2008. In a crisis, good leadership requires four things: Provide Accurate, Frequently-Updated Information. The first step of crisis leadership is to provide accurate information. Coronavirus Crisis Leadership.

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Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Brimstone Consulting

McNulty, associate director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, and Leonard Marcus, founding co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, wrote , “The coronavirus crisis, like every crisis, is unfolding over an arc of time with a beginning, middle, and end.

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What Has the Eurozone Learned from the Financial Crisis?

Harvard Business

Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank followed broadly similar policies in reaction to the crisis, lowering interest rates and injecting liquidity. But they differed greatly in how far and when they applied these policies. By December 16, 2008, interest rates were close to 0% in the U.S. Fiscal policy.

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The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo

Harvard Business

In examining what took them so long to react, Stumpf’s comments portray a leadership team that refused to believe the sales fraud could be systemic in a culture such as theirs. This leadership blind spot is the result of misguided reverence for their culture and its ability to inoculate the bank from systemic problems.

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The Coalitions That Could Hold the EU Together

Harvard Business

First, there was the fallout from the 2008-9 financial crisis and the arguably ill-judged imposition of austerity on the Union’s southern members. Its traditional partner at the EU’s helm, France, has struggled with its own economic problems since 2008 and has taken a back seat in driving EU policy.