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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

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 Management, 14(3), 453-464. Journal of Management Research, 1(4), 254. Collins, J. HarperBusiness. Dhar, U., & Eisenbeiss, S.,

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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. Defining moments: When managers must choose between right and right. Organizational Talent Consulting. References: Badaracco, J. 1, Issue 1, 46-52. Doolittle, J.

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It’s Time to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business

And talented Millennial employees are voting with their feet by leaving laggard companies behind. 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.

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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. Staples requires its 35 senior vice presidents to sponsor high-potential female talent for leadership positions. Susan Wojcicki (YouTube) asks managers for updates on their numbers around diversity.

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When It Pays to Collaborate with Competitors at Work

Harvard Business

Managers in an up-or-out organization are expected to advance. It’s why companies like Colorcon and Deloitte are giving their performance management systems an overhaul. 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.

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

Harvard Business

Women are underrepresented in the C-suite , receive lower salaries , and are less likely to receive a critical first promotion to manager than men. We found that the amount of direct interaction with management was identical between genders and that women were just as central as men in the workplace’s social network.

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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 %. Worse, it could have backfired, making management look out of touch. Access to basic information was limited to high-ranking managers. Photodisc/Getty Images. According to one industry report , U.S.