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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture is acutely critical during notable changes, such as M&As, which offer an opportunity for a renewed start on culture. When two organizations combine through mergers and acquisitions for economic reasons, it is doubtful that the two cultures will remain precisely the same.

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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. The companies best positioned to change in the next decade will be the ones that set themselves up well now, by collecting the right kind of data and investing in their analytics capacity.

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The 6 Top Leadership and Management Development Mistakes to Avoid

LSA Global

To avoid this leadership and management development mistake, ensure that each offering has clear and agreed-upon criteria that identifies the attributes of the target audience who will benefit the most. This is a common, but easily fixed, leadership and management development mistake.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business

They had all received at least one promotion or expansion of roles and responsibilities within management at the present company, and had been identified as having high leadership potential. What were the critical events, and what lessons did they learn? I had a very diverse team with a very different and strong culture.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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The Organizational Reasons Police Departments Don’t Change

Harvard Business

These events have left many in despair, wondering why the violence keeps happening and whether anyone knows what to do about it. Departments blame “rogue cops,” not organizational culture. Reining in this behavior requires a change in police culture. In reality, these claims are nearly always false.

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Research: How the Best School Leaders Create Enduring Change

Harvard Business

” In our study, it took at least five years to engage a school’s community, change its culture and improve its teaching. Typically, a half of this change came from recruiting new staff to resource growth, a quarter from reducing the number of supply teachers and a quarter from managing out poor performers.