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Why Character Matters in Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

Evidence from workplace studies on the benefits of character suggests that leaders with high character scores outperform others on company performance metrics. Leadership behaviors guide actions, but a leader's character determines how and if the leader acts. Great leadership is a combination of competence, character, and commitment.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Compelling evidence indicates that leadership moderates company performance and results. But, maybe you feel the importance of effective leadership is often overstated and are somewhat skeptical of the real impact leadership has on a business. Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures.

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Our Most Popular Content from 2017

Leadership Vision Consulting

Nathan spent time digging through our Google Analytics, social media stats, and podcast metrics, to see which articles of content were the most popular in 2017. The post Our Most Popular Content from 2017 appeared first on Leadership Vision. Happy New Year!!! There were a few surprises and a few things we expected.

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It’s Time to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business

Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. So for a compensation committee to justify a new metric, it needs to have a strong business case.

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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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Bridging Organization Design and Performance

Kates Kesler

Cost increases of about $400mm are expected to be offset by other synergies in the two separate companies at the end of 2017. It is the artful combination of organizational structure, process, governance forums, metrics and reward systems that tie together global business units and functions with far-flung geographic market units.

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

Harvard Business

We went in with a few hypotheses about why fewer women ended up in senior positions than men: Perhaps women had fewer mentors, less face time with managers, or weren’t as proactive as men in talking to senior leadership. The metric we used for this is called weighted centrality. But this isn’t happening.

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