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Acquiring the Entrepreneurial Skills You Need

Great Leadership By Dan

But as an entrepreneur, all the needed skills like leadership, relationship building, etc., Sam Walton, of Walmart fame, began learning and practicing his leadership skills from an early age: playing on sports teams, observing and listening to his job supervisors, and participating in and leading volunteer organizations.

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Embedding EDI as KPIs: The organisations using inclusion metrics as performance indicators

Chartered Management Institute

“We needed the metrics because we wanted to start the Stepping Up programme (a social enterprise that trains and develops diverse leaders from all protected groups in the Equality Act 2010), but it was going to be at a cost to the Council. This proved to be successful; the organisation won a transparency award for its 2018 EDI strategy. “As

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? 2010): 253-269. [6] Moreover, it’s hard. “I says Adobe CEO Shantanyu Narayen (#7 on our list). v=HfnFeJlkfZE. [5]

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How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy

Harvard Business Review

Some leadership teams have served as guiding examples of how to overturn short-termism and reorient their enterprise. In 2010, when Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began articulating a strategy to invest billions to transform from a health insurance company to a health care company, analysts grumbled. “Then get out of our stock.”

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How Discrimination Against Female Doctors Hurts Patients

Harvard Business Review

In August 2018 officials from Tokyo Medical University admitted to systematically altering medical school admission test scores to disadvantage female applicants. The percentage of enrollees who were women had reached 40% in 2010, and now stands at approximately 30%.). and far lower percentages of senior leadership positions).

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors.

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