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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(6), 1438-1446. Kouzes, J., &

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Top Consulting Firms

CaseInterview.com

Culture : Is the work environment healthy or toxic? It has an academic culture focused on continuous improvement.Intellectual rigor and factual analysis skills are vital components of success, as is a can-do attitude with an optimistic focus. Hours are long, and the culture can be demanding. Employee Satisfaction. Diversity.

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

The Empathy Index seeks to answer the question: Which companies are successfully creating empathetic cultures? We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. This year we added a carbon metric. Methodology.

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How Self-Care Became So Much Work

Harvard Business

It seems likely that the values driving us to be workaholics in the first place are also encouraging us to “optimize” ourselves by using metric-driven “hacks.” But it’s important to see how this ancient tradition is being commodified by our culture as a tool for improvement.

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Nearly Half of Companies Say They Don’t Have the Digital Skills They Need

Harvard Business

In PwC’s 2017 Global Digital IQ Survey, 52% rated their digital IQ as strong. The word “digital” used to mean your company’s investments in IT, and perhaps social media readiness, but now it’s bigger, touching on your company’s overall culture. Jump ahead to 2017, and that same metric is just 18%.

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When Companies Should Invest in Training Their Employees — and When They Shouldn’t

Harvard Business

companies spent over $90 billion dollars on training and development activities in 2017, a year-over-year increase of 32.5 %. The culture reinforced asking permission for everything. ” She believed her training solution had strategic relevance because it linked to a vital employee metric. Photodisc/Getty Images.