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LeadershipNow 140: January 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

Five Culture Killers in Your Organization by @GrowingLeaders. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Your Only Competition Is Yourself by @paul_larue. The Impoverishment of Attention by Shane Parrish @farnamstreet. The 5 Worst Mistakes Leaders Make When they Apologize by @WScottCochrane.

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Five New Year’s Resolutions Every Leader Should Make

Harvard Business Review

For leaders, this means a new urgency in targeting, nurturing, and advancing top talent in their organization. How can leaders leverage and develop diverse talent in 2014? Sponsors of color who have developed young talent are overall 30% more satisfied with their career progress than those who haven’t built that base of support.

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U.S. Latinos Feel They Can’t Be Themselves at Work

Harvard Business Review

They modify their appearance, body language, and communication style — all components of executive presence (EP), that intangible element that defines leadership material. ” More than half (53%) of Latinas and 44% of Latinos say that EP at their company is defined by conforming to traditionally white, male standards.

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Business Needs to Do What Government Can't

Harvard Business Review

Levi Strauss, intriguingly, has used biomimetic techniques in developing new production techniques for jeans. PUMA has led the field; its then-CEO Jochen Zeitz conceived an Environmental Profit and Loss (EP&L) for the company with PwC and Trucost. Zeitz is also rolling out the EP&L across the holding group PPR.

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Managing in an Age of Winner-Take-All

Harvard Business Review

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. Tumbling transaction costs are altering the economics of organizations and, at a stroke, invalidating old business models.

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How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave

Harvard Business Review

Slate's Matthew Yglesias cracked that "Amazon, as best I can tell, is a charitable organization being run by elements of the investment community for the benefit of consumers." With Amazon, though, nobody emphasizes EPS. Or, when they emphasize earnings, it's in the opposite direction from what Christensen's worried about.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. To construct our Corporate Horizon Index, we identified five financial indicators, selected because they matched up with five hypotheses we had developed about the ways in which long- and short-term companies might differ. rate for other companies.