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Are We Setting Our Leaders Up For Success?

CoachStation

Too often I saw people being held accountable for our own failures to set them up for leadership success and support our team members to achieve. Based on recent coaching conversations and discussions with clients, it would appear little has changed regarding leadership development in the years since. You worked hard.

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How Humble Leadership Really Works

Harvard Business Review

In the huddle, employees asked Jungkiu if they could open and close the same times as the mall’s operating hours (rather than the typical branch operating hours). Customer satisfaction increased by 54 percent during the two-year period of Jungkiu’s humble leadership.

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How We Closed the Gap Between Men’s and Women’s Retention Rates

Harvard Business Review

As in many fast-paced companies today, consulting staff operate without formal job descriptions or handbooks. So relationships are where employees develop critical skills and leadership capabilities. As with many workplaces, BCG has traditionally operated according to male communication norms.

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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business Review

Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency. One client of Change Logic’s has built a dashboard for identifying recruitment and attrition in must-win talent populations.

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business Review

Those analyses rely on publicly available data sources, but software providers have accumulated growing amounts of private data on almost every aspect of their customers’ technology, operations, people, and strategies. We’ve referred to this phenomenon as corporate robo-advisers , and we see more of them all the time.