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5 Leadership Lessons I Learned by Walking the Camino de Santiago

Leading Blog

When I decided to walk the Camino, I eagerly jumped into the planning. Their goal should be to leave their role and team in a better position than they inherited it. Walking the Camino emboldened me to check off a goal that I had long thought was beyond my abilities – writing a book. Learn from the Past. Don’t Judge Others.

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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). Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. Where are we? We certainly don’t prepare leaders to do this. So they don’t. They develop work-arounds.

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4 Failure Points that Can Undermine Your Business – Failure Point 4: Don’t Close Your Ears to Experts

Strategy Driven

You’ve got very lofty goals,” Dick said. Wyn Lydecker is the founder of Upstart Business Planning, where she works with entrepreneurs to develop plans that answer the questions investors ask most often. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Are you prepared to wait that long? Consider leaving a comment!

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Finance Can Be a Noble Profession (Yes, Really)

Harvard Business Review

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. These are rich questions that do not yield to simple analysis.

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The Right Way to Use Analytics Isn’t for Planning

Harvard Business Review

Yet, in the first quarter of 2016 the company sold only $17 million of Entresto in the U.S. Pharmaceutical companies spend millions upon millions preparing meticulous plans for new drug launches – and yet their route-to-market strategies haven’t changed in decades, even though the reality of the market has.

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Health Insurance Exchanges Fulfill Both Liberal and Conservative Goals

Harvard Business Review

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. Conservatives want people to be free to choose the insurance plan that best matches their preferences. To see why, one need only recall what conservatives and liberals want.

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Could HR be the most data driven function?

HR Digest

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. They include: people, data-driven analytical decision-making, and showing how their actions directly impact strategic goals at the end of the day. Increasing innovation is tied to strategic goals. Quality Hires. Talent Management.