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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

Creating meaning, teaching, empathy, self control, creativity, emotional intelligence, and the ability to define consequences, will be indispensable skills to prosper in the future. He provides practical tools to “unleash” the hidden creativity in all of us. The thrill of breakthrough creativity and breakaway performance.

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

N2Growth Blog

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. We begin to live and lead from a creative rather than a reactive viewpoint. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

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Why Your Employees Count as Much as Your Clients

Strategy Driven

Building a Customer Focused Environment. Managers can have a pervasive impact on the daily work environment of an employee. Great leaders like to build capacity within a company to encourage others to reach their potential and be creative. Job satisfaction and productivity is directly related to relationships with superiors.

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Yes, I do realize that given the current economic environment and cost cutting – especially around training unfortunately – some of these companies may have their programs on hold or scaled back to fewer numbers of attendees.). Creative thinking. She is currently President of the PMI® Mass Bay Chapter Board of Directors (2011 – 2013).

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Startup Accelerators Have Become More Popular in Emerging Markets — and They’re Working

Harvard Business Review

When we began collecting data in 2013 to explore differences between startup acceleration in emerging markets and in high-income countries, we expected stark differences. Business environments in most emerging markets are complex and can be difficult for even the most experienced entrepreneur to navigate. Acknowledge implicit bias.

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8 Tech Trends to Watch in 2016

Harvard Business Review

” 2016 will bring a host of creative bots that will supercharge our productivity, keep us company, and help us track what others are doing. Meantime, as Slack continues to grow in scale and popularity, bots within that environment will help automate meetings and status updates and so on, saving time and increasing productivity.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

That shift has created an increasingly commoditized product and service environment. McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. And that really is on the backs of marketing.”

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