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How Leadership Self-Awareness Improves Financial Performance

Organizational Talent Consulting

Here are two proven strategies to increase leadership self-awareness and the signs when it might be lacking. Self-Awareness Strategy #1: Leadership Assessment A 360 leadership assessment is a type of multi-rater instrument that collects feedback from multiple directions relative to the leader's position within an organization.

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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. When a platform strategy requires mixing the digital and the physical, the area of differentiation lies in service delivery in the physical world.