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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). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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Deadly Disease of Management: Emphasis on Short-term Profits

Deming Institute

One of Dr. Deming’s 7 deadly diseases is: Emphasis on short-term profits: short-term thinking. It is easy to focus on short term goals and use a somewhat simple short term figure to measure success. They simply get a letter from me every two years and call me when they wish.

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Is Your Business a Commodity or a Resource?

Strategy Driven

And while appeasing clients and giving them what they want may be an easy way to earn a living in the short-term, it’s a formula for disaster in the long run. Sutton’s bestselling books include: Start Your Own Corporation , Loopholes of Real Estate , and Finance Your Own Business. Otherwise, you are simply an order-taker.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. And we expect at least a portion of current AI piloters to fully integrate AI in the near term. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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4 Ways to Help You “Never Give Up”

Michael Lee Stallard

A number of leaders I know are beginning 2016 facing extremely challenging business and/or personal situations. Kohlhausen was trying to lead a TCU team beset with injuries all season and short its two best offensive players. Steve Jobs led a struggling Apple and had to seek financing from his rival, Bill Gates.

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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things

Harvard Business Review

Roivant was addressing some sobering realities: In 2016, only 22 new drugs were approved by the U.S. Year-on-year price increases for existing therapies have allowed the industry to maintain profitability, but those short-term fixes have come at a heavy cost: decreased public satisfaction with the industry and increased political scrutiny.

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Lots of Employees Get Misclassified as Contractors. Here’s Why It Matters

Harvard Business Review

Almost 400,000 Uber drivers in California and Massachusetts reached a $100 million settlement with the company in 2016 (a settlement that was later thrown out by a federal court as insufficient in the compensation it provided the claimants). All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S.