Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Mads Perch/Getty Images. What makes a CEO effective? The question has been studied extensively, of course, including in HBR. Yet we still know fairly little about how CEOs behave day-to-day and how their behavior relates to the success or failure of the companies they run. Previous studies have typically had limitations. Some have been of small samples, or relied heavily on the researchers’ interpretation to classify different “types” of executive.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 12, 2017

On September 20, I’ll be again volunteering to teach my class, “Dynamically Growing a Consulting Business” at the local SBA/SCORE office. It’s always an opportunity to remind myself the things I’m recommending to the students are the things I should be always doing myself, especially to enjoy what you’re doing. Last week in a newsletter from Alan Weiss he wrote how he always asks coaching clients, “Are you having fun?

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It's tempting to enter a field where mastery is assured, where you have a very good shot of being as good at it as everyone else. It turns out, though, that the most exciting and productive fields are those where there's a huge gap between those that are perceived to be the very best and everyone else. The wider the gap, the more it's worth to push through it.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Why Steps to Higher Employee Engagement Matter. By now, all business leaders should be convinced of the importance of engaging their employees – especially their top talent. Engaged workers are over 40% more productive than their unengaged counterparts. And companies with engaged workforces have higher earnings per share. Do You Know How Engaged Employees Are In Your Own Organization?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Jeff Bussgang, a venture capitalist who teaches entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, knows from personal experience and having funded many startups that there’s more than one way into that world. You don’t have to have a technical background. Excellent communication skills and a high emotional IQ are startup skills, too. Bussgang, the author of Entering StartUpLand , walks through the process of finding your dream job in a new company.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Maxime Ge/Getty Images. Feedback on social media can serve as a valuable source of information for companies, helping them to improve and develop products and services. Examples include Gillette, which launched the very first product for assisted shaving based on feedback inferred from social media, and Tesla, which improved the company’s app based in part on CEO Elon Musk’s reading a customer’s complaints on Twitter.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Ben Edwards/Getty Images. Sometimes the endless discussion about burnout in health care creates its own form of burnout — a sense of hopelessness about being able to stop an epidemic. But there is a way to counter burnout. Health care organizations can use a framework that deconstructs the different sources of stress and rewards in the lives of clinicians and that guides strategies for improving the balance.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Harry Haysom/Getty Images. Is the only responsibility of business to maximize profits, as Milton Friedman famously argued in 1970? Many scholars and business people have criticized this idea on the grounds that companies should cater to employees and the community, not just to shareholders. But the law seems to support shareholder primacy: Under Delaware law, which controls the vast majority of corporate America, directors are elected by shareholders, and, according to Leo Strine Jr., a Delaware

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