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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. to 17.9%, from 1980 to 2015. A global IBM study found that 33% of CEOs had engineering degrees and another 15% had finance degrees. If so, check out this complimentary inventory: Servant Leadership: Leading by Example.

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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business

Medicine involves leadership. Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images.

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2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting

Management Consulted

2015 class size: 635. The Class of 2015 had a full 35% of its graduates accept offers in the consulting field, and Kellogg has become a hot recruiting spot across top firms – but especially for McKinsey. 2015 class size: 259. Tuck takes leadership seriously. Buckle up; here we go! into consulting: 35%.

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Jim Whitehurst on the Open Organization: A Conversation with the CEO of Red Hat

BCG

With a background in business development, finance, and global operations, Whitehurst has a reputation for helping companies flourish—even in the most challenging of times. Jim Whitehurst is the president and CEO of Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open-source enterprise IT products and services.

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I'm Back

The Nonprofit Consultant

In 2015, there were only had about 50 members who were actually participating in their Recovery Circles regularly. In 2015, the Cafe had a handful of Circles, and a few drop-in activities. million renovation of the Cafe itself, financed through CDBG funds, and all the delays, bureaucracy, endless meetings, and hard work that implies.

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The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo

Harvard Business

Although roughly 1,000 employees had been fired each year since 2011 for these practices, the board only became “very active” on the issue in 2015. It was yet another two years before Stumpf brought in consultants in 2015 to investigate the full scope of impact on consumers. ” Deterrents to speaking up.

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Bridging Organization Design and Performance

Kates Kesler

The economic recovery of 2010-2015 has triggered a number of high-profile mergers, but even more break-ups and spin-offs among large global companies, particularly those based in the US. Global operating and support functions (R&D, supply chain, marketing, IT, HR, finance, etc.). Companies such as Nike, P&G, Deere & Co.,