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Essential Leadership Skills All Business Owners Should Develop

Strategy Driven

You will notice a steady decline in finances, returns, and the amount of work you are getting from your clients. Institutions teach many of these as part of the college curriculum or develop them through training and workshops. Direct your team’s energy into these ideas to make sure that there’s a collective effort.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. We’ve also learned that learners don’t commit time and energy to any program, course, or event. Participants were surveyed at the conclusion of the closing workshop and again sixty days post-program.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Facilitates workshops on vision, mission and values integration. He has spent more than 15 years investing in industries such as healthcare, energy, industrials, and technology. His vast experience from serving on the Committees of Finance, Judiciary, Education, and Rules.

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Uber’s New CEO Will Have to Win on Two Fronts Simultaneously

Harvard Business Review

market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. Khosrowshahi has much working in his favor. Remarkably, Uber has been hit by all four problems at once — a perfect storm that we rarely saw in our work.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

That's why I think the best thing we can do is to lead by example by making this not the focus of our energies, which I personally believe is more decisive than anything, and demonstrate instead how much more we thrive when we openly embrace and utilize our inherent diversity to our advantage.

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Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases

Harvard Business Review

The workshops companies invest in typically teach them to constantly check their thoughts for bias. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases.

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Whatever Happened to the $300 House?

Harvard Business Review

Our audacious challenge was followed by a spirited effort, in a series of HBR blog posts by experts in design, energy, finance and urban planning, to answer the following questions: How can organic, self-built slums be turned into livable housing? The workshop had four tracks: Rural House Design Prototype.