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How SWOT Analysis Harms Leaders

Lead Change Blog

Take the most popular of them, the SWOT analysis, where you try to figure out the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats facing your business. Martha, the CEO of a Midwestern healthcare company for whom I started consulting in early 2016, showed me her SWOT analysis from mid-2015.

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Society Needs a Leadership Paradigm Shift

Leading Blog

Building on the shoulders of such philosophical giants and the subsequent research over millennia, science has further defined, assessed, and developed the concept of character to apply findings to organizational leadership. T HE contemplation of character has engaged great minds reaching back to Confucius, Aristotle, and Plato.

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How to Solve Your Most Difficult Leadership and Talent Challenges

Great Leadership By Dan

You could change it again to, “How can we develop the right talent?” Before investing in developing solutions and strategies to your problems, first make sure you are moving in the right direction. Their myopic focus on this one tool limited their ability to “see” other leadership development solutions.

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Study Suggests Global North Still Appropriates Wealth From South

The Horizons Tracker

The study uses environmental input-output data alongside footprint analysis to explore the scale and value of the resource drain from the global South between 1990 and 2015. trillion during 2015 alone, which is enough to end extreme poverty 70 times over. Combined, this adds up to around $10.8 Unfair trade.

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Airbnb’s Pricing Algorithm Has Unintentionally Made The Racial Revenue Gap Worse

The Horizons Tracker

Airbnb has notably developed an AI-based smart-pricing tool that allows hosts to set the price of their property each day automatically. The analysis reveals that while the tool did indeed manage to narrow the revenue gap between White and Black hosts, it actually made things worse overall because fewer Black hosts were using the algorithm.

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Developing Your Strategic Proficiencies

Strategy Driven

There is certainly no shortage of articles, texts, and resources dedicated to the subject of developing business strategies. The process of developing business strategies is a creative one¬ – not unlike writing music, painting a portrait, or designing a new architectural masterpiece. They are: A nalysis. R ecollection. I ntuition.

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Leading with Trust

Great Leadership By Dan

Zak, PhD : One-third of business leaders surveyed in 2015 said that retaining colleagues is their number one concern. Employers underestimate the importance of personal and career development on employee retention, vastly overestimating the importance of salary and benefits. Guest post by Paul J. Everyone knows that people are mobile.