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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

From Everybody Matters which helps us to look at those we lead as family to Becoming Steve Jobs that looks at the development of a leader as a life-long process, the following books help us to do just that. Comparisons with Steve Jobs are not off the mark. They were basically self-taught with a well developed love of reading.

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How SWOT Analysis Harms Leaders

Lead Change Blog

We make these mistakes not only in work, but also in other life areas, for example in our shopping choices, as revealed by a series of studies done by a shopping comparison website. Martha, the CEO of a Midwestern healthcare company for whom I started consulting in early 2016, showed me her SWOT analysis from mid-2015. Cognitive Bias.

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Companies Invest In Automation To Plug Gaps In An Aging Workforce

The Horizons Tracker

It’s also true that most developed countries around the world are aging rapidly, with nations such as Japan, Italy, Finland, and Portugal aging the fastest. To make the comparison as fair as possible, they attempted to account for factors such as local labor trends or the industrial composition of the economy.

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New Map Shows Global Labor Flows

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers monitored their usage between 1990 and 2015, as well as assessing around 130 million specific job transitions between over 4 million companies during that period. The data can also support the comparison of geo-industrial clusters and their role in economic growth, and of course the skills that underpin such growth.

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Is Open Salaries and Pay Transparency a Good Idea?

HR Digest

A 2015 research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) found that high pay levels for top CEOs are demotivating employees in the UK. Focusing on peers, the survey recorded massive demotivating effects of learning other’s salaries. Demotivating effects of salary transparency.

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What Impact Will Covid-19 Have On The Movement Of People?

The Horizons Tracker

They also cite the Syrian conflict in 2015-16, which resulted in the displacement of over four million people, who fled to numerous countries around the world in the search for safe haven. Indeed, the authors note that millions of Europeans settled in Australia in the decades after 1945.

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Get Better Results by Looking at Your Team Differently

Strategy Driven

The result of those comparisons is the Leadership Matrix (or 'the box' for short). That new look at the 'how' of their results will help you coach and develop them more effectively. He’s the managing director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC – a leadership development training firm. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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