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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

link] Most economists hold a belief that a more efficient workforce leads to competitive advantage and lowers the costs of goods and services. It is when leaders use facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Collins, J.

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HR Must Make People Analytics More User-Friendly

Harvard Business

Our article in the Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance discusses factors that can effectively “push” HR measures and analysis to audiences in a more impactful way, as well as factors that can effectively lead others to “pull” that data for analysis throughout the organization.

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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business

” On the other hand is research about people’s preferences, like this 2013 study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology that, according to its authors, “categorically contradict[s] the industry-accepted wisdom that open-plan layout enhances communication between colleagues and improves occupants.”

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009). Research has linked organizational culture to employee morale, commitment, health, and productivity (Schein & Schein, 2016). Manyika, J.,

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The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Spillovers.

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