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How Leaders Can Fix a Negative Company Culture

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Guest post from Chris Dyer : When company culture fails, it’s usually on one of two planes: the work environment has gone rotten, or the way in which work is transacted has deteriorated. In my company, we designed a special emoji that staff can use in company-wide chats to thank someone who helped out or saved a big client.

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How to Achieve Better Gender Balance through Succession Planning and Development

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BETTER BOTTOM LINE : - Companies with more women in leadership have a 35% higher return on equity. Companies with more than three women on their corporate board have an 80% higher return on equity. Companies often will implement separate, often competing or conflicting strategies and goals. From a manager’s view, it’s confusing.

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3 Reasons Why Your Company’s “Superhero” Leadership Strategy Isn’t Working

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So you might be surprised when I say that many companies including yours are following a Superhero leadership strategy. A Superhero strategy is a leadership strategy in which an organization focuses most of its time and energy on developing a small, exclusive group of people who are destined for major roles in the company.

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Leadership: Leveraging Your Soft Skills

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Leaders of today have a bigger challenge, given the diversity of modern-day teams. Within five years, the company had nearly 50 employees, 30 of whom were in the field, with revenue approaching $28M. Dealing with the explosive triple-digit growth forced me to relinquish my “lead by example” sales role and instead lead differently.

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Going Global? Choose Your Country Wisely

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These companies have “going global” down—they perform strongly in international markets, and can execute across borders because they embed globalization on their daily executive discussions. Develop a Globalization Strategy Part of the agility for a company to stay strong globally is the makeup of their country investment.

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Why Great Leadership Requires the Courage to Accept Pain

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Guest post from Angela Sebaly : As a leadership coach, I’ve spent decades observing hundreds of people who have strikingly different backgrounds and equally diverse approaches to leadership. This is just one example among many.

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Help Your Global Talent Succeed and Lead - Cultivate Communication Skills

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According to the Harvard Business Review , English is now the global language of business, and more and more multinational companies are mandating English as the common corporate language. The non-native speakers in your company may perform their daily responsibilities well. But what else do their jobs require?