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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Because of this, CEOs are leaving a tremendous amount of employee potential talent and contributions on the table. By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. Consider GM as a case study. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics.

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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. Claar, V.V.,

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Selling as a Competitive Advantage in a Crowd

LSA Global

For those struggling with how to stand apart from the pack, the encouraging news is that Gartner Research reports that over 50 percent of customer loyalty is driven by how you sell – more than the impact of your brand, product, service, and price combined. Is your sales culture helping or hindering your growth strategy ?

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To Better Train Workers, Figure Out Where They Struggle

Harvard Business

This is a particularly acute issue at the entry level, where employers have come to accept that high levels of attrition and low levels of productivity and quality are normal. The metrics we track include: productivity, cost savings in recruitment and training, quality, retention, and speed to promotion.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business

To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company. Other women described working in new areas outside their current expertise, allowing them to learn entirely new product areas or skills as part of their leadership growth.

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How to Make a Great First Impression

Harvard Business

If, for instance, colleagues say you are a great people manager, seek out metrics to support that idea. Perhaps your direct reports tend to get promoted faster or your team is more productive. ” It could be a new assignment at work, upcoming travel, or a new product lineup. “Don’t toot your own horn.

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Make Data a Cornerstone of Your Team

Harvard Business

Corporate leaders are becoming convinced of the impact that effective data collection and analysis can have on the bottom line, from tracking daily reports against Key Performance Indicators to make informed decisions on where to spend marketing dollars, to monitoring and evaluating customer communications to adjust product offerings.

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