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

N2Growth Blog

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. This paper is about rethinking the practice of leadership and reforming the way we approach the development of leaders and leadership in our organizations. A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

The book offers a concrete framework to help individuals of all levels, functions, and backgrounds take charge of their own leadership development and become the best leaders they can be. Lencioni Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players.

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Will The Future Of Work Require More Investment In Technology, Not Less?

The Horizons Tracker

The task force have recently published their first official report not with an express aim to provide definitive answers, but rather to help leaders and policy makers ensure they’re able to ask the right questions. in 2013, with this resulting in the stagnating wages we’re seeing today. More technology needed.

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Running a State Health Insurance Marketplace

Harvard Business Review

I’d like to share what I learned while leading an SBM — to help other states as they navigate the health insurance landscape and, more broadly, to inform health-system leaders, employers, and policy makers about the challenges SBMs face and the solutions they’re developing. Since 2013, an estimated 16.4

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What Is Organizational Culture? And Why Should We Care?

Harvard Business Review

This is a problem, because without a reasonable definition (or definitions) of culture, we cannot hope to understand its connections to other key elements of the organization, such as structure and incentive systems. Nor can we develop good approaches to analyzing, preserving and transforming cultures.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Therefore, they don’t fit into the current definition of a security, and are technically outside of traditional legal frameworks. Since 2013, there’s been about $2 billion invested in blockchain and bitcoin startups from the VC community.

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10 Excel Functions Everyone Should Know

Harvard Business Review

We’ve been teaching and testing Microsoft Excel for a decade, and a survey of several hundred office staff we ran suggests we spend more than 10% of our working lives spreadsheeting , and for those working in research and development or finance, it’s more like 30%, or 2.5 hours a day. Insight Center. Sponsored by Splunk.