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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 character is shown to align the leader-follower relationship, increasing both leader and follower productivity, effectiveness, and creativity. 1, Issue 1, 46-52.

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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. Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(6), 1438-1446. Kouzes, J., & & Posner, B.

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It’s Time to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business

Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products. 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. Despite conflicting messages about climate change from U.S.

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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 %. Given these systemic issues, it’s unlikely a training program would have had a productive, or sustainable outcome. Photodisc/Getty Images. According to one industry report , U.S.

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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. Although the video does not use a workplace example, the intent of willing the good of the other is shown.

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How to Set More-Realistic Growth Targets

Harvard Business

Let’s take the example of one large company we worked with, which posited that it needed $250 million in new revenue from innovative new products in five years. Scouting options have low technical but high market uncertainty, in which the major task is finding product/market fit to extend the reach of an existing capability.

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Why Marketing Analytics Hasn’t Lived Up to Its Promise

Harvard Business

Based on our work with member companies at the Marketing Science Institute, two competing forces explain this discrepancy—the data used in analytics and the analyst talent producing it. of marketing leaders reported that their companies have the right talent to leverage marketing analytics. and 2017 (Mean 3.7,