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Five Reasons WHY Leaders Need Emotional Intelligence Training

The Center For Leadership Studies

McKinsey recently noted, “Numerous studies show that in a business-as-usual environment, compassionate leaders perform better and foster more loyalty and engagement by their teams. McKinsey & Company. 1 Nielsen NC, D’Auria G, Zolley S. Tuning in, turning outward: Cultivating compassionate leadership in a crisis. 2 Stein S, Book H.

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The Diversity Dividend: How Balancing Your Leadership Team Can Pay Off

Strategy Driven

As early as 2004, research by Catalyst, Inc. Most recently, a new international study by McKinsey & Co. In their recent study mentioned above, for example, McKinsey & Co. companies overall, calling that “measurable progress” but acknowledging that women remain underrepresented at senior levels globally.

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Three Cases of Better Corporate Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business Review

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. Between 34% and 44% of global companies surveyed are using AI in in their IT departments in these four ways, monitoring huge volumes of machine-to-machine activities.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey reports that the value at stake from sustainability concerns can be as a high as 70% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.

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The 50 Most Influential Management Gurus

First Friday Book Synopsis

Every two years, the Thinkers50 publishes their definitive list of management thinkers. Below are the results for 2011. For classic HBR content from this year’s winners, please click here. Christensen is the Kim B.

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Rethinking "One Share, One Vote"

Harvard Business Review

Except this time the aim is to diminish its application rather than to extend its global footprint. Google, which adopted a similar share structure at the time of its initial public offering in 2004, has gone further with its decision last spring to issue non-voting stock. Prominent commentators such as former U.S.