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

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). Leadership requires the will to push the limits combined with the skills to get people to willingly, enthusiastically, and repeatedly engage and contribute to important work.

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Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases

Harvard Business Review

But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. ” In finance, for example, that might mean believing — based on no evidence — that only MBA graduates from an elite university are likely to succeed at their jobs. Here are four ways: Clarify ambiguous criteria for success.

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Uber’s New CEO Will Have to Win on Two Fronts Simultaneously

Harvard Business Review

market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. This occurs when the founder’s leadership skills hit a limit, inhibiting the ability of the company to go to the next stage.

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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

For example, at financial services company ING, an issue deemed “material” to their view of sustainability related to financing a variety of “sustainable transitions” in industries such clean technology, real estate and others. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills

Harvard Business Review

At the start of 2016 Google announced that it had discovered the secret ingredients for the perfect team. Importantly, the above processes concern the psychological factors (rather than the technical skills) underlying both individual and team performance. For example, consider team members who are: Results-oriented.

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