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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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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

The most threatening competitor leadership teams face is themself." In the following video, Dr. Chermack provides an overview of the process using a small business case study. link] Performance Accelerator 3: Strategic Leadership. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality” — William Bennis.

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Setting a Strategic Goal of Cross-Functional Collaboration

Gina Abudi

Mini Case Study – Wrap Up. My readers who have been with me for a while may recall a three-part client case study I shared in 2016. The post Setting a Strategic Goal of Cross-Functional Collaboration appeared first on Gina Abudi.

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What ‘The Art of the Deal’ Reveals About Leadership Fairy Tales

Harvard Business

2016 might be the year we recognized the impact of an often-derided literary genre: leadership self-help. As far as I can tell, however, the leadership-industrial complex is hardly celebrating the prospect of President Trump, management-guru-in-chief, as a happy ending. It is a case study of the production of leadership.

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Why The US Presidential-Transition Process Should Start Now

BCG

Article Monday, September 26, 2016. Bush had to make do with a leadership team in the Department of the Treasury that was missing many key players, including assistant secretaries, under secretaries, and the chief legal counsel. However, getting the right people in place quickly is only part of the challenge.

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Power Can Corrupt Leaders. Compassion Can Save Them

Harvard Business

In 2016 John Stumpf, then the CEO of Wells Fargo, was called before Congress to explain a massive scandal. The recordings of the hearing are a shocking but illustrative case study of how leaders are at risk of being corrupted by power. Compassion is clearly a hugely overlooked skill in leadership training.

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Why Public Health Organizations Should Partner with Academic Institutes - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM QATAR FOUNDATION

Harvard Business

research study , which observed that 30–40 percent of patients in the United States “do not receive care complying with current research evidence.” A case study for what such collaboration can look like is the healthcare sector in Qatar. The recommendation was echoed in a recent U.S.