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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. We need to be “urgently” reflective because too often by the time we find out it’s broken, it’s been broken for a very long time.

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Soft Skills Are Vital If Low Skilled Workers Are To Thrive

The Horizons Tracker

At a firm level, this is usually translated into higher wages for employees at the most innovative firms, with new research from the London School of Economics showing that over 12 years, from 2004-2016, the typical worker in a non-innovative firm in the U.K. was paid around 20% less than their peers at one of the most innovative firms.

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The Costs of Not Bridging the Gap Between Generations

Strategy Driven

Marc Robertson, MBA, is the founder and president of NewSkills USA and has more than 25 years of experience in the media, entertainment, and technology industries. He is the author of Working with Millennials: Using Emotional Intelligence and Strategic Compassion to Motivate the Next Generation of Leaders (Praeger, February 29, 2016).

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Why The Best Hospitals Are Managed by Doctors

Harvard Business Review

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against humanity, are placing ever-increasing demands on clinicians. The Mayo Clinic is America’s best hospital, according to the 2016 US News and World Report (USNWR) ranking. ” But this is changing.

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What Neuroscience Reveals About Creating Better Leaders In Today’s Organizations

Tanveer Naseer

To do that it has made use of imaging technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), along with brain wave analysis technologies such as quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG). Resonant leaders are open, engaged, engaging, communicative, empathic and socially aware.

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Mantra Design & Leadership Foundational Principles

Strategy Driven

Continuously improve your company’s products and technologies by focusing on the few truly strategic core platforms. Hire smart, ambitious, get-it-done employees and lead them with emotionally intelligent innovation leadership skills. Emotionally intelligent innovation leadership. Commitment to growth. About the Author.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies

Harvard Business Review

Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. The three sets of companies that appear tied actually scored slightly differently.