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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. It makes for a great dramatic series, but when it happens to the organization that you’re a part of, it’s much less entertaining.

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Ego Free Leadership

Coaching Tip

employee engagement levels at thirty one percent, with almost twenty percent of employees actively disengaged --it's vital that leaders of organizations be able to recognize how their own behaviors and egos might be contributing factors. If leaders know the culture they want, why do so many organizations struggle to create that environment?

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Mike Sursock – Head of Operations Group at Baring Private Equity Asia.

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The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo

Harvard Business Review

They had a fuller discussion in 2013–2014 — around the time when media reports of the illicit behavior first surfaced. Stumpf testified that he personally became aware in 2013 when, after two years of ineffective solutions within the business unit, the volume of fake accounts was still increasing.

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Watching Wise Leaders Deal With Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Rather, what leaders need is practical wisdom — that is, a set of new capabilities that enable them see the potential benefit in complexity, and turn complexity into an opportunity to bring value to their organizations and the society at large. When wisdom provides the ethical compass, intelligence can become even more potent.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Companies are both operators and investors. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. 4 to $5 billion was invested by VCs in AI in 2016.

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We Took a Vote. You're Fired.

Harvard Business Review

burden of running their companies’ day-to-day operations. Instead, Shaer leaves us with food for thought: "It’s possible that the triumph of the flattened office may be the creation of work environments in which leaders organically arise, and all employees feel a sense of ownership, whether real or imagined.". Ethical Quandaries.