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Is Stress Killing Productivity? Here's How Leaders Improve Efficiency & Wellbeing

Organizational Talent Consulting

Take the following six-question survey to determine and benchmark your likelihood of experiencing gratitude. References: Adecco. Gratitude involves both the ability to acknowledge the good in your life and feeling a sense of thankfulness. Empathy, kindness, and love are closely related to the virtue of gratitude. The Adecco Group.

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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement

Tom Spencer

The interest rate set by the central bank serves as a benchmark or reference rate for banks. Indirect tax refers to taxes imposed based on the consumption, sale, or use of goods and services. The interest rates at which banks borrow and lend money are influenced by the interest rates established by the central bank.

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Retail Bank Operational and Digital Leaders Reap the Rewards

BCG

BCG’s Retail-Banking Excellence benchmarking study (REBEX) profiles the operational and digital practices and performance of 20 of the world’s leading retail banks, a group of 40 institutions chosen for their size and the strength of their capabilities. We refer to these banks as the “premier league.”

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Banking on Digital Simplicity

BCG

That is, they must develop digital and data capabilities that radically simplify their businesses while dramatically improving the customer experience through greater efficiency, quality, and speed. Banks that hope to prevail must urgently pursue digital simplicity.

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5 Levers for Creating a Culture of Accountability

Organizational Talent Consulting

A recent CEO benchmarking report found that nearly one in five CEOs surveyed identified holding others accountable as their greatest weakness and almost as many struggled with letting go of underperformers. References Connors, R., It doesn't just happen. Why employee accountability matters. Smith, T., & & Hickman, C.

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

This culture emphasizes efficient, reliable, and cost-effective performance. References: Beswick, C., Benchmarking in the process of creating a culture of innovation in hotel companies. Market Culture creates a competitive, fast-paced, results-oriented environment. This culture highlights coming in first. Bishop, D., &

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Top 10 Cognitive Biases that Affect Strategic Planning

LSA Global

The term refers to the way that the framing of information and its context can influence our decision-making and judgment. Certainly, framing and context can help us to make decisions more efficiently, but cognitive bias also can lead us to errors in judgment because we are not being completely rational and objective. Framing Effect.