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Adjusting Earnings Reports To Appeal To Robotraders

The Horizons Tracker

Recent research from the University at Buffalo highlighted how earnings reports can be enough to get a CEO fired. The research finds that executives are adapting their statements to suit the algorithms, with an emphasis on positive language over anything that might be perceived by the technology as negative in any way.

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from January 2011: "Civility is part of the foundation for bringing out people’s brilliance." 90% of the Best Companies expect employees to lead, regardless if they have a formal position of authority. Hay Group Report. jamesstrock : What is Your One Sentence for 2011? Your One Word?

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The 10 Elements of Positive Performance Management

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from John Mattone: The fundamental belief underlying Positive Performance Management (PPM) is this: Leaders and their employees must strive to make performance reviews complete, honest, and timely. The Ten Elements of Positive Performance Management. There are ten key elements of Positive Performance Management.

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Servant Leadership Observer – October 2011

Modern Servant Leader

Reporter News : McMurry University Dorm Chaplain Program Declared a Huge Success. According to this piece, “The C12 Group, reports a surprising positive impact from adoption of Biblical servant leadership principles.” Servant Leadership Observer – September 2011. ” I was not surprised, but then.

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Research Reveals The Scale Of Immigration Scams

The Horizons Tracker

The impact of immigration scams can be significant, not least as victims may feel extremely uneasy about reporting them to law enforcement agencies out of fear of alerting authorities to their presence. The authors suggest that these services don’t facilitate more crimes themselves but do facilitate greater reporting of them.

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Diverse Teams Help Organizations Adapt To Change

The Horizons Tracker

Team dynamics The study surveyed over 140,000 alumni from Stanford University, resulting in a dataset of more than 1,000 entrepreneurs who founded ventures across 19 industries from 1960 to 2011, ranging from agriculture to energy and utilities.

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Competitive Labor Markets Help Extract Community Benefits From Multinationals

The Horizons Tracker

Positive impact. Indeed, the researchers note that the impact of the company in Costa Rica was actually positive in the long term. The researchers measured the economic wellbeing of people in the communities where the company operated between 1973 and 2011. Indeed, households were 26% less likely to be poor than those elsewhere.