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Going Global? Choose Your Country Wisely

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Facebook, Apple, or PayPal, all enjoy global success. 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. Being decisive on how to prioritize global expansion is key here.

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Help Your Global Talent Succeed and Lead - Cultivate Communication Skills

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Guest post by Nancy Vason: As leaders of global businesses, you draw from a deep well of talent. 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. Are they leading global teams?

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Eighth Annual Hay Group Study Identifies Best Companies for Leadership

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There’s Chief Executive’s 2012 40 Best Companies for Leaders , Fortune’s 25 Top Companies for Leaders , and the just published Hay Group Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20. It’s no surprise that the same companies appear on these lists year over year.

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Great Leaders Attract Great Talent

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Diversity and complementary skill sets are key. Talent comes in many different flavors, and the best startups and companies recognize the benefits of building a kind of superhuman tensile strength in their teams. The global crisis has made this role even more essential. So how do you assemble a great team? Our biggest takeaway?

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New Study IDs Best Companies for Leadership?, Innovation

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Hay Group just released its seventh annual Best Companies for Leadership Study. The Best Companies for Leadership consistently outperform their peers. Over a 10 year period, the Top 20 companies produced a 5.39 Over a 10 year period, the Top 20 companies produced a 5.39 The Global top 20: Key Findings: 1.

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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. An entrepreneur developing a global presence, Angela has been coaching, facilitating and leading teams and organizations for over two decades.

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Leadership and the Innovation Crisis

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This is an age where we, as a global society, spend a minimum of $3,000,000,000,000 (that’s three trillion dollars, and it is a very, very lowball estimate) on innovation every year, and where at the same time around 750,000 children will die of diarrhea – just this year. For more information, please visit [link].

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