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Starting Thought: Leadership in 2016

leaderCommunicator

e past several years, the sheer volume of high-profile business leadership and ethics scandals has dominated our headlines, causing scores of people to ask, “What’s wrong with business leadership today?”. Please weigh in with your thoughts on this important question: What does effective leadership look like today?

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Walgreens Boots Alliance Leadership Announces New Executive Team

HR Digest

All three candidates are experienced individuals in their own fields and should help the company achieve accelerated growth in the industry. He has been a part of the Walgreens executive team since 2016, serving as senior VP and chief accounting officer since the start.

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Responsive Leadership: Needed Now More Than Ever

Leading Blog

No matter what industry or organizational structure—business, politics, nonprofit, religious, entertainment or sports—examples abound where leaders have violated their trusted role and experienced a public downfall. In 2016, Jenkins-Scott founded JJS Advising, focusing on leadership development and organizational strategy.

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5 Examples of Important SOFT Skills that Ignite Workplace Performance

Great Results Team Building

As important as technical skills and knowledge may be in your industry, team leaders and teammates soon realize that the soft stuff is really the hard stuff. Having a strong work ethic is impressive… but even more impressive is someone who looks around and SEES something that needs to be done and then takes ACTION without having to be asked.

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CEO Tenure Affects The Likelihood Of Recalling Unsafe Products

The Horizons Tracker

The authors highlight that the consumer product industry is relatively lightly regulated, especially in comparison to industries such as autos and pharma, where product recalls are also common. The researchers analyzed data from 125 listed firms, whose 307 CEOs enacted 584 product recalls between 1992 and 2016.

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Words of the Year

Coaching Tip

Actually, "youthquake" dates from 1965, when it was coined by the fashion industry. According to Merriam-Webster's, "feminism" was the most searched-for word in its online dictionary, up seventy per cent from 2016. But Oxford says that the incidence of "youthquake" spiked around the time of the British elections last June.

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Married BlackRock executive fired for failing to disclose office romance

HR Digest

In 2018, BlackRock held a meeting of its global executive committee, a group of about 20 of the company’s senior-most executives, which included both Smith and Wiseman, where Fink discussed the conduct of senior management employees and how they would be held to a higher standard of ethics and conduct. He was earlier with Times Warner.

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