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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

Great Leadership By Dan

Today, I help (mostly) professional services firms — law, accounting, insurance, architecture, finance — attain growth, productivity, and profitability. While it didn’t take long to weed out incompetence, we recognized that technical ability alone was not reason enough to promote professionals to managers.

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

N2Growth Blog

We chase short-term wins. They go after short-term wins and cannot lift their heads high enough to glimpse the future. If we look around and see that people are disengaged, that leaders are driving toward tactical outcomes and short-term wins, and that organizations are blindly driving ahead. We keep our focus narrow.

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Money, Money, Money: Why getting into trading could be the best thing you’ve ever done

Strategy Driven

This is a goal most people can agree they would love to have for themselves and you, surely, are no different. Being a trader means you buy and sell instruments of finance, such as stocks, bonds, and shares for a monetary gain. For example, one thing you need to sort out is your trading goals. Acquiring the skill set.

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How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy

Harvard Business Review

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. Do away with the game of quarterly earnings guidance, and instead articulate to investors your “strategic framework for long-term value creation.”

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Why Skills Are Key If AI’s Potential Is To Be Fulfilled In Healthcare

The Horizons Tracker

It’s shown what can be possible when the ‘burning platform’ is sufficiently hot, but the digital skills of NHS staff remains an enduring challenge, not least in terms of their data literacy. The Data Literacy Index , published in 2018, rated healthcare as the worst performing sector in terms of data literacy of staff.

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Navigating the Complexities of Doing Business in Russia

Harvard Business Review

and EU increased sanctions on Russia that same year, Russian authorities raided the Russian headquarters of Ikea , which has long struggled with interference from the Russian government. Furthermore, economic decision-making has become increasingly politicized as the government has prioritized political goals (i.e.

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To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM

Harvard Business Review

Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policy making, corporate finance, and planning. He once again took over General Motors, merged Chevrolet into GM, bought Fisher Body and Frigidaire, created GMAC , GM’s financing arm, and threw out the bankers who six years earlier had fired him.