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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

The Outward Mindset : Seeing Beyond Ourselves by The Arbinger Institute Unknowingly, too many of us operate from an inward mindset—a narrow-minded focus on self-centered goals and objectives. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2015.

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Three Key Strategies Any Business Can Adopt in 2016 to Boost Profitability

Strategy Driven

After 26 years since the creation of the businesses now have a number of methods and channels to distribute marketing and information about their products and services and are able to reach a varied and broad audience. You just finished reading Three Key Strategies Any Business Can Adopt in 2016 to Boost Profitability !

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Deadly Disease of Management: Emphasis on Short-term Profits

Deming Institute

It is easy to focus on short term goals and use a somewhat simple short term figure to measure success. The games played to manipulate earnings are enormous (and no surprise to those who understand likely outcome of pressure to meet short term goals is a desire to manipulate the figure rather than improve underlying results ).

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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. Workforce Productivity. Quality Hires. Adaptability.

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business Review

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

And research has shown that feelings of organizational ownership lead to g reater job satisfaction , engagement, productivity, and profits. The second step involves concretizing your goals by generating a research-based list of material issues across your entire value chain. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Holidays Can Be Stressful. They Don’t Have to Stress Out Your Team.

Harvard Business Review

” Almost half the respondents cited finances as the main culprit for their tension, while being over-scheduled, choosing the right gifts, and remaining healthy also contributed to people’s holiday woes. But preventing it all together should be the real goal. companies roughly £11 billion in 2016. And the U.S.

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