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How Leadership Self-Awareness Improves Financial Performance

Organizational Talent Consulting

Signs of a lack of self-awareness include: Stalling career Lack of direction Absence of learning something new Surprised frequently by feedback from others Frequently make excuses Constantly firefighting and struggling with time management What is your real self-awareness challenge? References Athanasopoulou, A., & & Dopson, S.

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Learning without training – Books

The Management Centre

And whilst we spend almost all of our time delivering training, we wholeheartedly believe in learning lots of things in lots of different ways. There are thousands of management and leadership books, on all kinds of topics. Books are particularly useful if you want to take your time to digest ideas and to process information.

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When Companies Want to Innovate, But Investors Won’t Let Them

Harvard Business

As of Aug 7 2018, Tesla’s market capitalization (USD 64.75B) exceeded that of BMW (USD 64.36B), despite BMW’s comparable production levels and deliveries of electric cars and significantly higher profits (net income of 10.3B for Tesla as of June 30, 2018). for BMW versus -2.7B

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

Three months after the sale, in June 2018, Toyota decided to pour $1 billion into Grab, in a bid to expand other offerings in the region including food delivery and electronic payments. During this time, management noticed that proprietors who placed ads with Recruit often represented small businesses. “‘Why us?’

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Transforming from a Good to Great Coach

Rick Conlow

Unfortunately, research shows 82% of managers fail and are poor coaches. Effective coaching requires a distinct set of skills that managers often lack. Effective coaching requires a distinct set of skills that managers often lack. As a result, they may not prioritize coaching or allocate sufficient time to it.

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 Consultant or Vendor? Pick only one!

Women in Consulting

It might be a course in time management or project management or a one-day team building retreat. So you teach your one-day course on time management and all the attendees complain bitterly about the always shifting priorities that come down from upper management. For more information and tickets.