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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

A 2012 Custom Insight survey revealed that 49% of workers cited problems with their direct supervisor as their reason for disengagement. This paper is about rethinking the practice of leadership and reforming the way we approach the development of leaders and leadership in our organizations. Unprepared leaders develop work-arounds.

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E-Coaching Roles

Marshall Goldsmith

The art of developing leaders will evolve with the technology that connects people through both wired and wireless networks. All participants have to hear the same content, delivered in the same way, at the same time. Experience difficulties while searching for high-quality leadership development tools. by Marshall Goldsmith.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Good Intentions, Bad Results: Learning from the Panic of 1826

Strategy Driven

Looking to increase the homeownership rate and “foster affordable housing,” the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) department issued regulations that required 55% of all government sponsored entities (GSEs) to purchase “affordable” loans from banks, either directly or through packaged MBS. All rights reserved.

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An Online Medical Database Is Reducing Doctor Error

Harvard Business Review

Access to evidence-based medical content at the point of care that answers clinical questions and ensures accuracy in diagnosis can reduce diagnostic errors and improve outcomes. Given that most developing countries do not record medical errors, the global magnitude of the problem is not well documented.

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The Risks and Benefits of Using AI to Detect Crime

Harvard Business Review

Social media companies use machine learning to block illicit content such as child pornography. Even though banks now file 20 times more suspicious activity reports linked to money laundering than they did in 2012, AI tools have permitted them to shrink the armies of people they employ to evaluate alerts for suspicious activities.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

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The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

Harvard Business Review

When the company saw that user reviews were getting all the traffic, they adjusted to focus on user reviews, such that fresh, authentic content was always available and didn't cost the company any money to produce. Content is free and supplied by consumers who write reviews voluntarily. Scaling Lesson 2: Maintain a Sense of Urgency.

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