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Responsive Leadership: Needed Now More Than Ever

Leading Blog

Empathy is considered foundational to workplace cooperation and productive collaboration. All leaders face adversity at some point in their careers. In 2016, Jenkins-Scott founded JJS Advising, focusing on leadership development and organizational strategy.

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What Disengaged Employees Would Say to the Boss (If They Could Be Honest)

Michael Lee Stallard

In 2016 you received the results of your company’s employee engagement survey. Take time to meet with us and learn about our career aspirations and what support we need to do our best work. Listen to and consider what we say and then look for ways to align department goals with our career goals. They were disappointing.

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Your Success Key to Maximizing Potential and Improving Performance

Lead Change Blog

This post is a part of our 2016 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. Her thesis is that people who proactively cultivate a growth-mindset achieve a greater degree of success and a deeper meaning of fulfillment in all areas of life, including business, career development, education, parenting, and other social relationships.

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The attack of the Yabuts!

Strategy Driven

1 killer of collaboration, cooperation, great ideas and innovation in organizations. People feel more confident, become more cooperative, open up and think, put more ideas on the table, nourish those ideas, and as a result, creativity and innovation soar! Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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How Johnson & Johnson and American Express Are Developing Young Leaders

Harvard Business Review

In 2016, former American Express CEO Ken Chenault tasked chief human resource officer Kevin Cox with finding new opportunities that would drive innovation and revenue growth. Fall of 2016 marked the first convening of the ALD Revenue Growth Challenge event. American Express.

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It Pays to Become a B Corporation

Harvard Business Review

At Cabot Creamery Cooperative, we’ve seen firsthand that combining corporate self-interest with support for social and environmental issues is not a costly distraction. Now, after three years of operation, Real Farm Power generates enough electricity so that cows in our cooperative provide the electricity needed to churn our butter.

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What’s Holding Women in Medicine Back from Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Evidence shows that women in academic medicine experience greater challenges finding mentors and sponsors than men, and that this gap likely contributes to career disparities. This can hamper cooperative parenting and make it harder for women to stay in the field. A study of Generation X academic doctors in the U.S.