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Leadership Lessons from the Banking Upheaval

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Jean-Marc Laouchez , Hay Group: “Banking is no longer somewhere that you go, it’s something that you do.” - Brett King, Banking 3.0. When was the last time you visited a bank branch? leadership style. In Africa, some telecoms providers have bypassed traditional banks completely.

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Responsive Leadership: Needed Now More Than Ever

Leading Blog

The Big 4 Leadership Attributes. Curiosity will play a critical role in steering an organizational transformation, creating a new product, innovation or better understanding the competition. Empathy is considered foundational to workplace cooperation and productive collaboration. Curiosity: The Desire to Continuously Learn.

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What Have You Learned from Your Worst Boss Ever?

Next Level Blog

My first job out of graduate school was as a first year associate in a Wall Street investment bank whose last of the 10 corporate values they printed in their annual report was, “Have fun!” Decades later, it remains the worst place I ever worked or have seen other people working in in 20 years of leadership development work.

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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

It’s a provider that a customer or client favors in the purchase of a product or service versus its competition. Whether a business sells autos, groceries, clothing, computers, bicycles, or raw materials to a manufacturer of industrial products, it wants to be the preferred provider of those products. ” -Stan Silverman.

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Don’t Just Lead – Guide!

Great Leadership By Dan

As Ed Bernbaum, a mountaineer and Senior Fellow at the Mountain Institute writes, “Just as Everest stretches people to do more than they thought they could, so companies want to stretch their employees to reach the loftiest goals, to be number one in the field, to provide the best product or service in the industry group.”

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Investing In People Builds Resilience Against The Covid Recession

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, the World Bank predict that we’re facing up to the worst global recession since the 2nd World War. It’s a contract that’s based upon trust and is vital if productivity is to be high across the business. It’s widely accepted that the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic will be substantial.

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How to Become Truly Social

Coaching Tip

The days of leading countries or companies via a one-way conversation are over, as Netflix’s one-way conversation with customers on prices, Bank of America’s one-way conversation on debit fees and Verizon’s one-way conversation on an e-billing surcharge recently demonstrated. 5) Invest in culture rather than governance. 7) Scale your values.

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