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Parkinson's Law of Triviality

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was first published in SmartBlog on Leadership on 11/29/2012: Have you ever noticed that committees or management teams tend to spend way too much time in meetings endlessly debating the most unimportant or mundane topics, while at the same time, not enough time on the most important or strategic issues?

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Are you Ready for the Next Level?

Great Leadership By Dan

We rarely discussed the kind of functional skills (marketing, operations, and finance) that are taught in typical MBA programs – those were considered table stakes for this level of management. It was always the “soft” stuff that was considered important, and those capabilities were usually in short supply. So why should we care?

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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. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. Participants were surveyed at the conclusion of the closing workshop and again sixty days post-program.

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The Important Reasons Why You Need an API Integration Platform

Strategy Driven

Forbes conducted a survey in 2016, which found that even the most basic organization was using at least 6 cloud apps. Finance departments in modern-day enterprises have a lot of different tasks that must be handled by various teams. Did you know that Instagram had only 13 employees when Facebook bought it in 2012?

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E-Coaching Roles

Marshall Goldsmith

Tools such as 360-degree feedback and mini-surveys can be done online, at low cost as needed. For example, some leaders may need to change behavior; others may need functional training in marketing or finance. Traditional, people-centered techniques for follow-up and reinforcement tend to be expensive and time-consuming.

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New MBAs Should Start Their Careers in Frontier Markets

Harvard Business Review

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. At worst, they misjudge or simply stay out of markets vastly different from their own.

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No, the Best Science Students Aren’t Becoming Financiers

Harvard Business Review

Since the 2008 financial crisis, policy makers, professors, politicians, and others have expressed concern over America’s best and brightest minds electing to work in finance instead of pursuing potentially more socially valuable careers in science, medicine, and engineering. of MIT graduates taking jobs in finance after graduation.