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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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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. Organizational Talent Consulting. A blind passion for results damages a leader's reputation and the organization. Servant Leadership Theory & Practice, Vol. 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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Nearly Half of Companies Say They Don’t Have the Digital Skills They Need

Harvard Business

In PwC’s 2017 Global Digital IQ Survey, 52% rated their digital IQ as strong. Jump ahead to 2017, and that same metric is just 18%. Unfortunately, for many companies, that’s exactly the situation they find themselves in. On a global basis, companies are losing faith in their digital smarts. Insight Center.

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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. based workforce where 20% of management and higher-level roles are held by ethnically diverse talent.

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Uber and Other Tech Companies Could Make Simple Changes to Avoid Driving Away Their Female Engineers

Harvard Business

The reaction of many could be summed up as: It’s 2017 and we’re still dealing with this stuff? Does that sound like a good use of expensive talent? Companies that don’t address these problems will continue to hemorrhage talent. Her essay has received nationwide attention — and alarm. Sadly, we are.

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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. A traditional transactional leadership style adopts a top-down view of an organization with the leader on the top.

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