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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. Executive leadership and organizational performance: Suggestions for a new theory and methodology. & Lord, R. Collins, J. HarperBusiness.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

Methodology. This year’s index builds on the methodology of last year’s. Our publicly available metrics including CEO approval ratings from staff, ratio of women on boards, and number of accounting infractions and scandals. This year we added a carbon metric.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

We then offered people the opportunity to learn new innovation methodologies and apply them to real business challenges. For example, in 2017 we created the CATALYST fund, a combination of professional support (using Lean Startup principles) and money to explore larger business opportunities across the company. Extending the network.

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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.” .” This raises the question: Are we genuinely interested in feeling healthier and happier? Or reminding ourselves that laughter is healing ?

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Trustworthy I-O Master’s and PhD. Program Rankings

NeoAcademic

By the way, I’m defining “trustworthy” as based upon empirical data, reporting a transparent ranking methodology, and where a reasonable argument could be made for construct validity of “program quality.” Most of these are based on nonsensical metrics (e.g., ” Without further ado, here is the list.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. went public in June, then saw its stock price fall 70%, making it the worst performing IPO of a major company so far in 2017. Blue Apron formally stated their intention to become a public company in early June of 2017.