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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Bad leadership habits and ineffective leadership approaches are not destiny, and all leaders need to continually develop at a pace consistent with the change in the leader's world. Executive leadership and organizational performance: Suggestions for a new theory and methodology. The best organizations are made up of the best leaders.

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

At Treehouse, an online school that helps companies hire developers and designers, we’re seeing the same problem. In January 2017 we partnered with Colleen Showalter from the local Boys and Girls Club (BGC) in Portland, Oregon, and asked if they would help us recruit new talent, ages 18 and above, from underrepresented groups.

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Socially Responsible Business Can Only Succeed If It Becomes a Movement

Harvard Business

We must use these technologies to unleash human potential — undoubtedly the most underused resource on the planet — and bring greater purpose, meaning, and values to work. Smart machines can help us find answers more quickly, but cannot frame the questions to address. All these sparks of activity are generating heat and light.

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The 4 Dimensions of Digital Trust, Charted Across 42 Countries

Harvard Business

Are there countries where guaranteeing trust is a more urgent priority and will draw a larger share of trust-building resources and regulations? Here are some of our initial findings, drawn from the study, “Digital Planet 2017: How Competitiveness and Trust in Digital Economies Vary Across the World.”

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

Scaling Up Manizales ( Manizales-Más in Spanish), an economic development coalition of local institutions and the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform (BEEP), which I created and lead, was launched in 2012 with the ambitious aim of revolutionizing the pursuit of opportunity. strategic hires).

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow

He earned his PhD in resource management, underlining his expertise. “When Dr. Goldratt came to me and asked, ‘Eli, how long will it take you to develop a new feature’, I hesitated. Preparing Dinner (Resource & Quantity Buffer). Keeping a Spare Tire (Risk & Resource Buffer).

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business

Based on their stock prices on July 6, 2017 , Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook were the five most valuable companies in the world. They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. Digital players wield outsize market power.