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Retaining Directors Isn’t The Silver Bullet For Merger Success

The Horizons Tracker

. “Across several time frames of post-acquisition performance, statistical techniques and different samples of acquisitions, we consistently find that director retention tends to undermine post-acquisition performance compared to firms that did not retain a director,” the researchers say.

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Research: Can a More Detailed LinkedIn Profile Boost Your Salary?

Harvard Business Review

To measure the effects of digital presence on compensation, they analyzed a sample of 1,741 executives who changed jobs between 2004 and 2011. In this article, the authors explain how the intentional management of our online personas can have a positive and measurable connection to pay.

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Five Reasons WHY Leaders Need Emotional Intelligence Training

The Center For Leadership Studies

There is no longer any question: Leaders must have strength and balance in Emotional Intelligence for maximum effectiveness, and this skill set helps them to diagnose and deliver an antidote that can prevent much trouble, pain and possible heartache. Yes even—or especially — in the workplace. 1 Nielsen NC, D’Auria G, Zolley S. 2 Stein S, Book H.

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Why the Health of Your Doctor Matters

Michael Lee Stallard

His first step on the slippery slope into unintended addiction came one evening in 1988 when he reached for a sample he had in his office of extra-strength Vicodin (which has acetaminophen and hydrocodone, an opioid) to relieve a tension headache so he could finish seeing patients on that day’s schedule.

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Atul Gawande on the importance of a “positive deviant”

First Friday Book Synopsis

In “The Bell Curve,” an article written for The New Yorker (December 6, 2004), Atul Gawande uses the term “positive deviant” to describe unusually effective performers in the field of medicine. In fact, there are outliers in all fields. To Gawande, it is highly advisable to study outliers and learn from them to improve our own [.].

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Is A Narcissistic CEO Good For Your Organization?

LDRLB

The data from the study come from 111 CEOs in the computer hardware and software industries from 1992-2004. Here is what they found: In our sample, narcissistic CEOs did not generate better or worse performance than less narcissistic CEOs. Hambrick published in one of our top research journals, Administrative Science Quarterly.

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Serving on Boards Helps Executives Get Promoted

Harvard Business Review

” To test our idea that board service would help advance the careers of executives, we created a sample of roughly 2,140 top executives in S&P 1500 firms from 1996-2012. in 2004, and in 2005, her total compensation from her home firm, Whole Foods Market Inc., In 2004, he joined the board of Petsmart Inc.,