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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

The Horizons Tracker

It’s less common for poor management to be targeted to explain lackluster productivity, but research from Stanford’s Nick Bloom suggests that is a mistake. Weak management Bloom’s World Management Survey was established in 2004 to measure management practices across hundreds of medium-sized firms in the likes of the U.K.,

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Remembering Sacred Commitments

Persuasive Powerhouse

» Remembering Sacred Commitments January 17th, 2011 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus I sat transfixed as a group of elected leaders – half of whom were newly elected – discussed how they would work with each other and the local government administration. Will they stay true? Mary Jo Asmus : January 18, 2011 at 5:58 pm Me too, Susan.

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Managing With a Conscience

Leading Blog

Frank Sonnenberg makes the case in Managing with a Conscience , that the only sustainable way to succeed is the right way—not cutting corners—emphasizing the intangibles like trust, creativity, focus, speed, flexibility, relationships, loyalty, and employee commitment. Management should announce an open-door policy.

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Leading by Cause

Lead Change Blog

He opened the dialogue, saying he and his leadership team had put a lot of thought into where they want to take their bank, and the vision they committed to was to deliver top decile ROE, ROA and topline revenue growth: a quintessential example of focusing on effect, not cause. Logic tells us we can manage cause, but only measure effect.

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Seven Ways to Leverage Internal Mobility

The Center For Leadership Studies

In a world filled with turmoil and rampant change, we find hope and stability when our employer—to whom we commit one third of our time—says, “You have a fulfilling future here. Stay Interviews The place to start is a stay interview most often led by the employee’s manager or the manager’s manager. Let’s make it happen.”

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The Big Picture of Business – Developing The Talent for Business to Succeed

Strategy Driven

Critical topics include leadership development of executives, mindset changes in the evolution from manager to executive to leader, executive mentoring, insights into how top professionals evolve, plateaus of professional accomplishment, developing a winning work ethic, lifelong learning and the accrual of business wisdom.

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How Agile Is Your Business?

Lead Change Blog

We have provided reassurance, in a world gone crazy, that when “normality” returns—as it inevitably will, in one form or another—they will have: Seen change as an opportunity; Managed the acceleration of change; Better change capacities at an individual, team, and organisational level; and.

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