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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Compelling evidence indicates that leadership moderates company performance and results. But, maybe you feel the importance of effective leadership is often overstated and are somewhat skeptical of the real impact leadership has on a business. Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

Methodology. This year’s index builds on the methodology of last year’s. We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. billion ($1.39 billion) in the year to end-March 2016.

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The Best Approach to Decision Making Combines Data and Managers’ Expertise

Harvard Business

.” Rather than reducing reliance on intuition, the advanced methodologies of big data require managers to use even more intuition to make sense of the growing number of outputs and recommendations being generated by data models. Besides increasing transparency, combining domain expertise and data also increases predictive accuracy.

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Zappos Holacracy and When It’s a Good Thing For People to Leave

Cheryl Cran

The article itself begins to sound alarmist until you read on and recognize that once again CEO Tony Hsieh has shown ‘evolutionary’ leadership by providing an option for people to stay with the new direction or to opt themselves out. ” must be asked and answered daily.

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Zappos Holacracy and When It’s a Good Thing For People to Leave

Cheryl Cran

The article itself begins to sound alarmist until you read on and recognize that once again CEO Tony Hsieh has shown ‘evolutionary’ leadership by providing an option for people to stay with the new direction or to opt themselves out. ” must be asked and answered daily.

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Zappos Holacracy and When It’s a Good Thing For People to Leave

Cheryl Cran

The article itself begins to sound alarmist until you read on and recognize that once again CEO Tony Hsieh has shown ‘evolutionary’ leadership by providing an option for people to stay with the new direction or to opt themselves out. ” must be asked and answered daily.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Satya Nadella, for instance, joined Microsoft in 1992 and worked his way up to running its cloud computing effort, building that business unit into a viable new growth platform before becoming CEO, in 2014. As any manager knows, a generic-sounding list of values won’t move the culture needle unless leadership brings it to life.