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The More Senior Your Job Title, the More You Need to Keep a Journal

Harvard Business

In both cases, any new leader must manage intense exposure (as it sinks in that top leaders have few places to escape to) and unrealistic expectations (of both self and others). The best thinking comes from structured reflection — and the best way to do that is keeping a personal journal. You and Your Team Series. Resilience.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

A study of 100 executives and middle management leaders in manufacturing and service organizations demonstrated that effective leadership improves follower performance, promotes higher business levels, follower job satisfaction, and follower organizational commitment. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Collins, J.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

One of the biggest challenges facing management scientists has been the struggle to produce knowledge that is both academically rigorous and applicable to practicing managers. In an Academy of Management Journal editorial, we described two problems that contribute to this challenge. spiderstock/Getty Images.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

Likewise, what is the right set of metrics that company executives should use to manage their subscription businesses in order to hold themselves fully accountable to their stakeholders? Our bottom-up view was markedly less optimistic than the top-down story that the company’s management team had painted.

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Do Conservative Managers Give Smaller Bonuses to Women?

Harvard Business

Len and Cal are fictional characters, but they represent the findings of our research ( forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal) on one large U.S. corporate law firm, which indicates that the political values of managers can be a powerful influence on how they allocate bonuses. Chin, Donald C. Hambrick, and Linda K.

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Consulting Sales Systems That Work for Introverts with Bob Burg: Podcast #16

Consulting Success

He enjoyed the job but wasn’t very good at it simply because he wasn’t interested in journalism. Without a passion for journalism, he knew he needed to make a career change and graduated into sales. He worked his way up to sales manager and began teaching people his methods, but that was just the launching point of his success.

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Is Gathering Real Time "Inflation" Data With Smart Phones a "Game Changer"?

MishTalk

The Wall Street Journal claims Real-Time Economic Data Could Be a Game Changer. Fatal Flaws in Inflation Tracking Methodology. link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. All these things are sensitive from a political point of view," Mr. Varian said.

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