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5 Must-Read Books For Business Leaders For Summer 2013

Eric Jacobson

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. AMA Business Boot Camp -- Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. Leadership Conversations -- Challenging High-Potential Managers To Become Great Leaders. Edited by Edward T.

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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. It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

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You Can’t Delegate Talent Management to the HR Department

Harvard Business Review

That’s why many of them, particularly the largest ones, rely on full-time “talent management” professionals, who work in coordination with other parts of HR. These talent management people create processes for assessing leadership capabilities and set the strategy for upgrading leadership talent over time.

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The IT Project That Brought a Bank to Its Knees

Harvard Business Review

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. This shortfall resulted in its parent, Co-operative Group, ceding control of the bank to bondholders, including U.S. We have developed a simple yet powerful framework that leadership teams can use to navigate the digital landscape and avoid the kinds of problems that Co-operative Bank suffered.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

One outside manager of many endowments I spoke to confirmed to me that there has been “no mandate” from clients to be investing in the future of higher education. “I Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in. I haven’t heard that at all,” was the quote.

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Bureaucracy is a Bogeyman

Harvard Business Review

Megafirm had outsourced the management of the problem to us. When companies become too complex to manage, they create costs to others. The big banks had well-intentioned formal processes for risk management, but no one was really, genuinely accountable for the risks they took. Customer service Delegation Operations'

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How U.S. Businesses Can Succeed in India in 2015

Harvard Business Review

America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations. In June 2013, Dallas-based Mary Kay exited from India after six years and over $20 million invested. Boeing is America’s largest exporter and the only American defense contractor to have crossed $2 billion in sales to India.