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Powering with Passion and Teaming with Energy

The Practical Leader

These manipulative managers pay lip service to the value of people, but their behavior treats “their people” as “assets with skin” or “human capital.” ” As one executive put it, “I’d really enjoy my job if I didn’t have to deal with all the people problems.”

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The Best Leaders Are Constant Learners

Harvard Business Review

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. In a recent Deloitte study, Global Human Capital Trends 2015 , 85% of the respondents cited learning as being either important or very important.

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Rethinking the Work of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

In 1973, Peter Drucker stated in his book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, "Management is not culture-free, that is, part of the world of nature. Furthermore, a study conducted by the Human Capital Institute and Interaction Associates in 2013 found only 34% of organizations had high levels of trust in the places they work.

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March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

In her excellent TEDx talk, The Woman Effect – Video and the Research Behind It , Dana Theus of InPower Consulting Blog examines the modern state of feminine leadership and invites us to show up and participate. Valuing Human Capital.