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Research Reveals The Importance Of A Local Supply Of Managers

The Horizons Tracker

The notion of a global executive labor market is widely held, with frequent headlines touting the appointment of top executives to lead companies in far-flung corners of the world. Yet, new findings from Bocconi University suggest that the impact of local managerial talent on company performance is often overlooked.

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New Study IDs Best Companies for Leadership?, Innovation

Great Leadership By Dan

Hay Group just released its seventh annual Best Companies for Leadership Study. The Best Companies for Leadership consistently outperform their peers. Over a 10 year period, the Top 20 companies produced a 5.39 Over a 10 year period, the Top 20 companies produced a 5.39 Not at all. Any idea what's going on with that?

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10 Companies Offering Work from Home

HR Digest

Moreover, for companies that have a global presence, hiring the best talent wherever available gives the leeway to be connected 24/7 to someone at work in some part of the globe. The number of people who work from home has increased by 140 per cent since 2005. is a cloud computing company based in Windcrest, Texas. Intuit Inc.

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What Your Organization Really Needs from You: Influence and Impact

Leading Blog

For a large majority of leaders, the struggle to have influence and impact comes from things that you can manage and change. Tommy’s boss saw that Tommy had freed up time and refocused his energies on what the manager needed from him, and told him, “I’ve been waiting for you to figure this out.”. The solution is far from magical.

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Speak Your Truth So That Others Can Hear It

Leading Blog

You may value the team and company putting time and resources into successful projects, but don’t want to see the company waste money on failing ones. Making sure this project is successful is important to me, and I think it’s critical that the company makes good use of limited resources.

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Leadership Development "Moneyball"

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was originally published in SmartBrief on Leadership 7/25/2013: “Moneyball” was a book and movie based on Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane and his use of statistics (sabermetrics, to be precise) to get the most production out of his team by spending the least amount of money. Source: Fast Company. Source for Nos.

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Snap Out of It! How To Own The Terms Of Your Success

Terry Starbucker

She spent the first 10 years of her business as a consultant to large companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Charles Schwab and Cisco Systems, where she worked with thousands of executives, managers and employees.