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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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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. Staples requires its 35 senior vice presidents to sponsor high-potential female talent for leadership positions.

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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.

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Bringing Selfless Love Into The Workplace

Organizational Talent Consulting

link] How you can love those you lead The answer for bringing selfless love into the workplace is not hiding in metrics or data within the business- but in your routine practices, you perform automatically in your daily life. A traditional transactional leadership style adopts a top-down view of an organization with the leader on the top.

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When It Pays to Collaborate with Competitors at Work

Harvard Business

Doug embraced this idea and, in turn, explained how his company was using metrics and working group meetings to compel tangible advances in each inspection area. Similarly, by collaborating, we helped each other improve — and we sparked a culture of trust and mutual betterment. We were well served by all this collaboration.

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A Study Used Sensors to Show That Men and Women Are Treated Differently at Work

Harvard Business

The metric we used for this is called weighted centrality. According to McKinsey and LeanIn.org’s 2017 gender report, women with a partner are 5.5 ” and “What about our company culture has limited women’s growth?” But this isn’t happening. However, women are not advancing, while men are.

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