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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. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Journal of Management Research, 1(4), 254. Collins, J. HarperBusiness. Dhar, U., & Eisenbeiss, S.,

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If You Think Downsizing Might Save Your Company, Think Again

Harvard Business

During the Great Recession of 2008, companies around the world downsized their workforces. American firms alone laid off more than 8 million workers from the end of 2008 to the middle of 2010. Proponents of downsizing argue that it is an effective strategy, with benefits such as increased performance and sales.

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How to Support Employees’ Learning Goals While Getting Day-to-Day Stuff Done

Harvard Business

Sales isn’t what you do. Lines like this are still used all too frequently when employees tell their managers that they want to move in a new direction. Managers are under tremendous pressure to generate results. Get top-level guidance and metrics. Part of your job will be to manage this uncertainty.

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How Nokia Embraced the Emotional Side of Strategy

Harvard Business

As part of this research, we conducted 120 interviews, including nine with board members and 19 with top managers. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. Practice #1: Increase trust by defining new conversational norms.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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Putting the 'Customer' in 'Service Optimization' - Think customers.

1 to 1

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

The organizational barriers to profitable growth are foreseeable and can be managed. A decade of centralizing global product and brand management in Amsterdam had largely denigrated the field-based commercial organizations around the world into order-takers, while the global business units migrated further away from customers and consumers.

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