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Leading in a World of Change: Lessons from Downton Abbey

Great Leadership By Dan

At the same time, the advent of new ground breaking technologies such as electricity and motorization – today we would call them disruptive – allowed the estates to operate with significantly less staff. A world in flux, now : And it is happening, right now, to businesses in almost every industry, everywhere in the world.

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Ego Free Leadership

Coaching Tip

Between 2009 and 2013, while many in his industry closed their doors during the Great Recession, Encore's revenues and profits increased 300%, operating cost declined 30%, and the stock price rose 1,200%.

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The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo

Harvard Business Review

The grueling testimonies from CEO John Stumpf, coupled with insights from my industry-wide research into the culture and mindsets of bankers, suggest there is a blind spot among senior leaders at Wells Fargo, as well as deterrents to speaking up among the rank and file. ” Deterrents to speaking up.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

.” Startups such as Wealthfront, Personal Capital, and Betterment launched robo-advisors as industry disruptors, and incumbents, such as Schwab’s (Intelligent Advisor), Vanguard (Personal Advisor Services), Morgan Stanley and BlackRock have joined the fray with their own hybrid machine/advisor solutions.

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How Military Veterans Can Turn Their Skills into a Corporate Career

Harvard Business Review

Since 2013, I’ve keynoted talks to groups of transitioning military veterans nearly 20 times as part of Deloitte’s CORE Leadership program, which helps vets reinvent themselves into civilian careers. .” Do you have a strong work ethic?’” “It’s very much, ‘Can you learn?

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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. billion in 2013, and operating profits increased 65% to $422 million.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. In our opinion, which of the two is the more successful depends on the context in which the business operates. Consider PPG Industries. for the S&P 500 Industrials. Quite to the contrary.