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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. If we look around and see that people are disengaged, that leaders are driving toward tactical outcomes and short-term wins, and that organizations are blindly driving ahead.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Mary Bilbrey, CHRO at JLL (NYSE:JLL) : Bilbrey leads a team of more than 90,000 professionals that deliver thought partnership, problem-solving, and tactical support to help drive JLL’s business goals and priorities. Prior to joining Verizon, she led HR for both Corning and PepsiCo respectively. Affiliates.

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Ensuring your business’s data integrity empowers profitable business decisions

Strategy Driven

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. A business’s life source is its data, and with the recent data breaches and cyber attacks, the state of a business’s data has become a top concern.

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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business Review

Despite this lack of focused attention toward development of leadership capabilities in trainees, evidence suggests that leadership quality affects patients, healthcare system outcomes, and finances alike. Fourth-year medical students are ultimately evaluated on medical knowledge and leadership abilities in a simulated tactical field setting.

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Where There’s a Why, There’s a Way

Harvard Business Review

Trish Costello, founder of Portfolia, knows her “why”: assist starts-up in growth and financing. Then, in 2013, she launched Portfolia, a platform that allows start-ups to raise money from the crowd, whether family, friends, or professional investors. Then in 2013, he made a big gamble on a how.

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance.

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Will the Internet Destroy the Stock Market?

Harvard Business Review

On one day — May 17, 2013 — over $100 million changed hands before the rest of the public even knew an event had occurred. Finance Internet Technology' In June, Thomson Reuters came under fire for allowing its elite clients to see consumer confidence data 5 minutes and 2 seconds before the general public gained access.