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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

They operate in a bubble and do not attend the party. to 17.9%, from 1980 to 2015. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics. Kouzes and Posner, authors of The Leadership Challenge, found that over 80% of managers value honesty as a key characteristic in their leaders. We know everything.

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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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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. The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility.

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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Sadly, evidence suggests that 50% to 85% of mergers fail to deliver on shareholder returns despite leadership's best intentions. The leadership challenge is to figure out the best way to manage the formation of a blended new shared culture. Influence the leaders’ leadership style.

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Job Hub: Uber Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Uber. Operational worldwide, Uber offers its transportation network services in 58 countries and over 300 cities. Estimated to be valued at around $50B as of July 2015, Uber has experienced a rapid (to say the least!) seven years of growth.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. But just as rental houses are often given minimal maintenance, leaders of acquired firms brought in only the minimum leadership necessary. This shift means that PE firms’ approaches to talent and leadership must also change.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

Were you involved in leadership at all when you were there? Not at the school, just at the church level, just doing different leadership level stuff for our college ministry. And so stuff that’s related to church, or an institution of faith, you have to position in terms of mentorship, or community leadership. Awesome, okay.