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Self-awareness (plus action) Translates to the Bottom-line

Great Leadership By Dan

Here’s more from a June 15, 2015 press release: An analysis by Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY), the preeminent authority on leadership and talent, shows that public companies with a higher rate of return (ROR) also employ professionals who exhibit higher levels of self-awareness. It’s called the “knowing-doing gap”.

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What to Measure If You’re Mission Driven

Harvard Business Review

My favorite Peter Drucker misquotation is, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” ” Drucker wrote a great deal about how managers should measure performance, but this particular phrase didn’t come from his pen.

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Capitalism’s Future Is Already Here

Harvard Business Review

This post is part of a series of perspectives by leading thinkers participating in the Sixth Annual Global Drucker Forum, November 13-14 in Vienna. These problems hardly arose overnight; they began brewing early. However, it was after the advent of the internet that the challenges to the shareholder value maximization became forceful.