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The 6 Top Leadership and Management Development Mistakes to Avoid

LSA Global

Not Focusing on Business Outcomes and Metrics First Too many instructional designers start with learning objectives, content, and training modalities. There is inevitably real discomfort as employees stretch to practice and embed new ways of operating. This is a common, but easily fixed, leadership and management development mistake.

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A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run

Harvard Business

We found that any type of leadership change will result in short-term adverse impacts on a firm’s operational efficiency, but outsider CEOs experienced a clear advantage in productivity gains. Because hospitals receive substantial governmental revenues, they make public their operating data, which we needed to calculate productivity.

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Digital Leadership Is Not an Optional Part of Being a CEO

Harvard Business

One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. Rather than using traditional top-down management practices, the company organized itself into small business units, each of which operates in a local geography. We call this operating structure the “network of teams.”

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3 Ways to Incorporate Wellness into Content Moderation for a Healthy Workforce

1 to 1

Social media enables people of various backgrounds, cultures, and communities to connect and share special life events. From the first recruiting contact and employee onboarding to training and daily associate activity be sure everyone feels connected and supported. It has also become an uncertain ground for malicious content.

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What Airbnb and Strava Know About Building Emotional Connections with Customers

Harvard Business

There was no need to make a telephone call to a distant operator; all the farmer needed to do was log in and order. Farmers, alone for hours on end in the fields driving their tractors, looked forward to calling the operator to place their orders. AgriCo’s online platform failed dramatically. They enjoyed the company.

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

Harvard Business

Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency. One client of Change Logic’s has built a dashboard for identifying recruitment and attrition in must-win talent populations.

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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