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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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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.” It ensures alignment of goals, resources, and people.

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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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What 11 CEOs Have Learned About Championing Diversity

Harvard Business

The structured interviews were conducted by me over the phone, Skype, or in person, between February and June 2017. And Marc Benioff of Salesforce said, “Diversity is an important part of our culture of equality. I asked three questions: Why do you care about diversity? What have you done to promote diversity?

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When It Pays to Collaborate with Competitors at Work

Harvard Business

This service, widely offered but rarely used, amounted to iterative looks at companies’ commodity shops (small functional teams that focus on human resource management, equipment maintenance, supplies, and so on). Similarly, by collaborating, we helped each other improve — and we sparked a culture of trust and mutual betterment.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

That takes time and resources – and it also requires bringing creative thinking to unfamiliar problems. The metrics also changed. This program gives employees across all disciplines and levels tools to educate them on the company, its culture, products and services, and how they solve its customer’s needs.