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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. Both definitions are partially correct; and, there is a piece missing. We can weave this will to push the limits into our definition of leadership. A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

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Complimentary Resource – Economist: Smart SMBs Fine-Tuning the Engines of Growth

Strategy Driven

In the latest forecasts from The Economist Intelligence Unit, global GDP growth for 2013 has been revised down to 3.1% – only slightly up on GDP growth for 2012 (2.9%). Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Complimentary Resource – Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide for Midsize Organizations.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

The Man Who Knew : The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby This is definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill. Best Leadership Books of 2013. Best Leadership Books of 2014.

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Will The Future Of Work Require More Investment In Technology, Not Less?

The Horizons Tracker

The task force have recently published their first official report not with an express aim to provide definitive answers, but rather to help leaders and policy makers ensure they’re able to ask the right questions. in 2013, with this resulting in the stagnating wages we’re seeing today. per year in 1992 to just 0.3%

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Six Paradoxes Women Leaders Face in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. What this means for 2013 is that women have a huge opportunity to convert their connections into career advancement. That sounds like progress. The Start Up Paradox.

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What’s That You’re Calling a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

And the definitions that do get offered can vary pretty dramatically. Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” Everyone can agree on this definition, right? That’s pretty good.

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Why Bitcoin Entrepreneurs Are Begging for More Regulation

Harvard Business Review

As Bitcoin entrepreneur and Circle founder Jeremy Allaire — whose company this morning announced another $17 million in venture capital financing — explained at a panel I moderated Monday at Harvard Business School, there is an appropriate role for regulators to play in ensuring consumer protection. When companies like Mt.