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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

But, unlocking the full potential of what is possible requires a talent strategy tightly aligned with your company's data analytics strategy. Executives with the right analytics infrastructure and the right talent in the right place have a significant competitive advantage. Architecting culture is an essential activity for leaders.

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Why Character Matters in Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

Evidence from workplace studies on the benefits of character suggests that leaders with high character scores outperform others on company performance metrics. Leadership behaviors guide actions, but a leader's character determines how and if the leader acts. Great leadership is a combination of competence, character, and commitment.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Because of this, CEOs are leaving a tremendous amount of employee potential talent and contributions on the table. to 17.9%, from 1980 to 2015. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics. If so, check out this complimentary inventory: Servant Leadership: Leading by Example. We know everything.

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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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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. link] Leadership creates difficult choices.

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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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What 11 CEOs Have Learned About Championing Diversity

Harvard Business

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.