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Servant Leaders Achieve Extraordinary Results

Rick Conlow

Adam Grant, management researcher and professor at the Wharton School of Business, shows in his book Give and Take that servant leaders are more productive and more highly regarded by employees. In addition, research by Hoch, Bommer, Dulebohn & Wu (2016) showed an additional 12% gain in outcomes beyond other studies.

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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Carefully and appropriately choose your organizational development interventions. Pizza parties (with dietary alternatives), happy hours, and office games like ping pong or video games can foster team bonding and employee engagement (Müceldili & Erdil, 2016). Professional Development Opportunities: Invest in your team’s growth.

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Why Character Matters in Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

This article provides three practical steps to help you develop your character strengths and pass your next character test. Leadership character is shown to align the leader-follower relationship, increasing both leader and follower productivity, effectiveness, and creativity. link] Why is Character Important to Your Success?

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Chances Are, You Are Not as Good at Active Listening as You Think

Organizational Talent Consulting

Being heard creates psychological safety in relationships and is vital to establishing productive conflict and trust. The good news is that exploring, developing, and applying active listening can elevate your employees and grow your business. You can build active listening skills with training, like physical endurance and strength.

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Is AI the Solution for the Banking Sector? (Part 2: Solution)

Tom Spencer

Learning from the experience of Uber and other tech firms, it appears that the paradigm has shifted from products to solutions, from product selling to problem solving. AI, though still in its early stages of development, clearly has the potential to evolve into an advisory role, and help to solve unmet customer needs.

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Will Cognitive Computing Disrupt the High-Skill Labor Market?

Tom Spencer

She danced to requests and wittily answered customers’ questions on topics which ranged from product information and weather forecasts to their love life. Even marketing professionals nowadays might need to understand data analytics, SEO optimization or how to develop advanced algorithms.

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The Year at a Glance

Chad Barr

Help our clients create thousands of pieces of remarkable content and products such as eBooks , subscription services , video books and online training , by leveraging our Creating Global Digital Empires® service. Launch our new online product. Develop a new public workshop. Secure a publisher for my next book.

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