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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

One research study suggests that followers contribute on average 80% to the success of an organization. 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.

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

Harvard Business

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. This measure has been validated by extensive academic research. This can lead to faulty estimations of companies’ myopia.

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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. We add to this debate with our new research, which indicates that downsizing may actually increase the likelihood of bankruptcy.

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Keynes Is Dead, Abenomics Fizzles, US Fails to Reach Escape Velocity, Stimulus Fatigue

MishTalk

Today''s information technology allows a multinational company to position research, marketing, finance and managerial jobs to anywhere. The 2008 crisis prompted a pause. In the decade before the 2008 financial crisis, trade was driving growth. Both manufacturing blue-collar jobs and most white-collar jobs have become global.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. 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. Challenges.

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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business

What type of office design is best for productivity and engagement? We came to this hypothesis in part due to early research by Gina Venolia, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research , who conducted a 2008 study that examined the special problems faced by remote teammates at Microsoft.

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Why COOs Should Think Like Behavioral Economists

Harvard Business

A growing body of research demonstrates the myriad ways in which our choices run counter to our interests. Nudge , a 2008 book by Richard Thaler (winner of the 2017 Nobel prize in economics) and Cass Sunstein refers to this as choice architecture. Display a performance metric on the wall? Create more-diverse hiring committees?

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