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Research Explores The Path Our Careers Take

The Horizons Tracker

The paper utilizes longitudinal administrative data from Germany to shed light on the long-term benefits of apprenticeship training programs for workers entering the labor market after completing secondary school.

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Preview Thursday: Clarity First

Lead Change Blog

The short-term benefits of ambiguous organizational behaviors come at enormous long-term cost. It allows product quality issues to persist to the point of costly and reputation-sapping recalls, or market-share erosion. Ambiguity about customer requirements or preferences means you don’t have to work to satisfy them.

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Leaders vs. Managers

Great Leadership By Dan

He inherited a company that had developed 20 years of cultural focus on fit and efficiency. Jim Clawson Bio: James Clawson has been a professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia since 1981. There are risks.

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A Four-wheel-drive Diamond in the Rough Leadership Model

Great Leadership By Dan

All of these take place within an environmental context that includes the financial markets, the economy, competition, labor markets, regulatory environments, and other environmental factors. If you’d like to discuss having Jim work with your company, please contact Dan McCarthy, at daniel.mccarthy@unh.edu.

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Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company. Higher-ambition CEOs know who they are, and how they lead and run their companies reflects their personal values and principles.

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How to Manage Your Star Employee

Harvard Business Review

Group dynamics are another concern when you have a standout performer on your team, says Mary Shapiro, who teaches organizational behavior at Simmons College and wrote the HBR Guide to Leading Teams. Don’t lose her to another company, though. Be prepared “to fight battles on two fronts,” Shapiro adds.