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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

The diversity across markets results in a mixture of backgrounds of different belief systems, habits, and perceptions that govern the behavior of local team members. Another aspect of the challenges faced by FinTech leaders is managing teams through a series of transformations successfully.

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How to Avoid the 5 Career Derailers

Leading Blog

The careers of one-half to two-thirds of managers and leaders will derail. “At Captain Fantastic’s poor ego management results in behavior that is a combination of defensiveness, arrogance, lack of composure, being distrustful, being mischievous and colorful, and being passive. W HY DO SOME careers stall while others flourish?

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Why collaborative leaders will always win

Strategy Driven

In an increasingly competitive global marketplace, agile, innovative businesses that are able to attract and retain talent, are those with the greatest chance of success. Leaders who understand the importance of collaboration in business have a belief system that everyone has the ability to develop, learn and contribute.

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Work with Who Your People Are, Not Who You’d Like Them to Be

Great Leadership By Dan

However, as anyone who has endeavored to manage people in the past decade can attest – this model of leadership rarely shows up in the real world - certainly not in the modern age of business. But if we’re completely honest about it, a very large proportion of the workforce will never be engaged in the work that they are doing.

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Josh Bersin’s Perspective on Inspiring Transformation

HR Digest

Long before I got interested in HR, I spent 25 years in sales, marketing, business development, and product management. The book is written as an approachable way to understand the seven secrets, so any manager, leader, or HR person can learn a lot. If it’s not easy to use, we don’t need it!).

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To Succeed as a First-Time Leader, Relax

Harvard Business Review

When individual contributors are tapped to manage large-scale projects, oversee direct reports, or participate in strategic planning, they need to develop new skill sets on the fly — skills such as interpersonal dexterity, emotional agility, and communication savvy. How talent management is changing. Insight Center.

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Developing Mindful Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Weiss and her team were careful to keep the language of specific belief systems and religions out of PEP. It came in glowing: 10-20% increase in employee satisfaction, 50% increase in employee collaboration, conflict management, and communication; 12% increase in customer satisfaction; and nearly three times the normal business impact.