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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

We find ourselves amidst the challenges of living and working in a triple-threat world of a global pandemic, economic instability, and political unrest. Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. Leaders25 2020 Top CHRO Awards.

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Jon Acuff Resignation from Dave Ramsey Team Raises Questions

Modern Servant Leader

The actions by Ramsey’s organization and the lack of transparency from either man raise questions in the Christian business, personal finance and leadership communities. However, in amicable transitions websites can (and typically do) remain up and operating as normal throughout such a transition. Jon Acuff’s Disclaimers.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

The Outward Mindset : Seeing Beyond Ourselves by The Arbinger Institute Unknowingly, too many of us operate from an inward mindset—a narrow-minded focus on self-centered goals and objectives. To understand Greenspan's story is to see the economic and political landscape of the last 30 years—and the presidency from Reagan to George W.

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4 Strategies for Women Navigating Office Politics

Harvard Business Review

The politics of office life seldom fail to flummox and frustrate the top female executives my partners and I coach and train. In 2013, we conducted a number of interviews and surveyed 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings. HBR Guide to Office Politics.

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Study: Employees Want Employers to Talk Politics

Harvard Business Review

Employers are increasingly talking about politics with their employees. In fact, since we began our outreach and monitoring, we have seen a fourfold increase in employer-to-employee political communications, from 5% of the private workforce hearing from their employer about politics in 2000 to over 20% in 2008.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Talent : Zimbabwe has one of Africa’s strongest education systems , and consequently boasts an abundance of high-caliber talent, which means it is relatively easy for companies to find locals to run their operations.

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CEOs Don’t Care Enough About Capital Allocation

Harvard Business Review

There are just two ways to increase ROIC: improve operating profit (by increasing revenues or cutting costs) or invest capital more wisely. As the chart below shows, only half of the CEOs of companies in the Dow Jones Index have previous experience in corporate finance or strategy.

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