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Retaining Directors Isn’t The Silver Bullet For Merger Success

The Horizons Tracker

Mergers and acquisitions often have a pretty dreadful success rate, and one tactic firms deploy to try and improve their chances of success is to try and retain at least one board-level direct from the target company. In all, the researchers analyzed over 550 acquisitions that had taken place between 2004 and 2014.

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8 Things Successful Leaders Do8 Things Successful Leaders Do

Marshall Goldsmith

Being successful as a leader can be hard. The original study, published in 2004, included 86,000 people. It helps them become highly successful leaders. Ask: Ask people “How can I be a better (manager, partner, team member, etc.)? We now have research from 250,000 people who confirm that this model works.

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Simple Techniques to Overcome Negative Emotions When Negotiating with Others

Leading Blog

A KEY PREDICTOR of entrepreneurial success is a leader’s ability to manage relationships with investors, employees, and customers. How well we learn to negotiate can be the difference between success and failure. Here we will look at one aspect of successful negotiating: our emotions. Relationships are negotiations.

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Leadership: Balancing Art, Craft, and Science

Mike Cardus

Managers, not MBAs: A hard look at the soft practice of managing and management development. The visionary style seems to be especially prevalent among successful entrepreneurs. It appears to be common amongst first-line operating managers, such as factory foremen and project managers.

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Deming on Management: Joy in Work

Deming Institute

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). This is the seventh post in our Deming on Management series. View our previous Deming on Management posts , including: Leadership , Appreciation for a System and the PDSA Cycle. Edwards Deming’s ideas on management.

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ROI of Executive Coaching 500% Return

CO2

Understanding the ROI of Executive Coaching is crucial for organizations committed to fostering growth, innovation, and sustainable success. Through these focused strategies, executive coaching plays a pivotal role in shaping leaders who are capable of guiding their teams and organizations towards remarkable achievements and enduring success.

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Two Team Building & Leadership Success Stories

Mike Cardus

Below are two short success stories. To read more success stories check out Team Building Stories and the Exponent Leadership Stories. Team Building & Leadership Success Stories. Working primarily with management within these organizations, my role has been honed to coach, counsel, facilitate and conduct focus group work.