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Five Reasons WHY Leaders Need Emotional Intelligence Training

The Center For Leadership Studies

Fortunately, the surgeon operated before the worst could happen and my husband recovered completely. McClelland’s findings in a 1996 study showed that “when senior managers had a critical mass of Emotional Intelligence capabilities, their divisions outperformed yearly earning goals by 20%. Yes even—or especially — in the workplace.

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Why the Health of Your Doctor Matters

Michael Lee Stallard

In addition to caring for patients in the exam room or operating suite, physicians face challenges of navigating the reporting requirements of new payment models. His life took a turn in 2004 and he “managed to taper off the drugs.” He began to have trouble sleeping and he gained weight.

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Is Your Next Great CEO a Management Consultant?

Harvard Business Review

There are a variety of places where corporations and boards look for potential CEOs, but the leagues of management consulting generally isn’t one of them. So why should a company consider hiring a management consultant to be their CEO? The main thing to learn is the urgency with which consultants naturally operate.

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When Corporate Philanthropy Makes the Recipient Look Bad

Harvard Business Review

Gifts from the private sector can help these organizations grow, undertake projects they would otherwise be unlikely to afford, offer more job security to their employees or more incentives to their volunteers, improve their operations, and ultimately thrive.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004.

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How the Best Restaurants in the World Balance Innovation and Consistency

Harvard Business Review

For example, at The Fat Duck in the UK (which has had three Michelin stars since 2004, except in 2016 when it closed for refurbishment, and where I worked on the innovation side), cooking temperatures are systematically controlled to 0.1°C, This means achieving precise standardization and strong quality control.

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Electing a President in a Microtargeted World

Harvard Business Review

A former campaign manager, Strasma started his company in 2003 to find a better way to predict who the true persuadables are in a campaign, and to find smart ways to target messaging towards them. In 2004, microtargeting was a fairly new concept. It's a world where hundredths of a percentage point matter. Definitely the scale.

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