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Eighth Annual Hay Group Study Identifies Best Companies for Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Hollywood has the Oscars, Television the Emmys, publishing has the Pulitzer prizes, and leadership development has its own annual awards. There’s Chief Executive’s 2012 40 Best Companies for Leaders , Fortune’s 25 Top Companies for Leaders , and the just published Hay Group Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20.

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How to Use Mentoring to Attract and Retain Talent

Skip Prichard

Recent data suggests that more than 50% of the workforce consists of people born after 1981—Millennials (born 1981-1996) and Generation Z (born 1997-2012). Positive Workplace Culture. There are many factors that contribute to a positive workplace culture. This requires understanding the desires of the labor force.

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Nice Guys Can Finish First

Marshall Goldsmith

And not many people remember that Jack Welch has a PhD in chemical engineering. But further along in your career curve, when it’s time to step up into a leadership position, you’re going to need these qualities in spades. Leadership' At some point, you get the benefit of the doubt on skill issues.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Although Zhou had outperformed the financial plan, the gap between 3721’s market position and the local competition was widening. Ma and the Alibaba leadership team would retain management control.