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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. However, compassion becomes especially critical during a crisis.” Tuning in, turning outward: Cultivating compassionate leadership in a crisis.

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Jobs and US economic recovery: A panel discussion sponsored by the Committee for Economic Development (CED)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Once again, McKinsey & Company’s Quarterly has made available an exceptionally valuable program to the general public: Experts discuss McKinsey’s research on “jobless recoveries” and ways to solve the longer-term US employment crisis (August 2011).

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Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Poitential Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran Jossey-Bass (2011) How and why to cope with a leadership evaluation and development crisis to produce more effective leaders As Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis suggest in Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, leaders [.].

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Morning Advantage: The Sky Is Falling, but the Ceiling Is Fine

Harvard Business Review

So commences McKinsey Quarterly's report on the firm's latest survey on global economic conditions (which was in the field during the week leading up to the Greek elections). Indeed they are at their lowest since March 2011, according to the report.

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The Fortune Global 500 Isn’t All That Global

Harvard Business Review

Unfortunately, these data start before or even end with the financial crisis, and the sample selection criteria are not entirely clear. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift? There are indeed some indications that point in this direction.

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The Fortune Global 500 Isn’t All That Global

Harvard Business Review

Unfortunately, these data start before or even end with the financial crisis, and the sample selection criteria are not entirely clear. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift? There are indeed some indications that point in this direction.

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How Managers Can Promote Healthy Discussions About Race

Harvard Business Review

population growth between 2011 and 2050. Every manager should be willing to proactively ask employees to talk about how they feel race has influenced their experience at the company, rather than wait for a crisis situation to emerge before tackling these issues. Be proactive about inclusion efforts.