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Executive Assistant Coaching: Elevating Leadership Skills for Success

CO2

This involves honing skills such as decision-making, emotional intelligence, and crisis management. Case Studies: Transformative Impacts Research and case studies have shown the transformative impact of specialized coaching.

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Case Study: When Tragedy Strikes Your Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

The past few days had been a whirlwind, and she was still trying to make sense of how her work life had transitioned so abruptly from celebration to crisis. Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Laura sighed.

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Case Study: When the Twitterverse Turns on You

Harvard Business Review

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and e-mail address.).

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Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It

Harvard Business Review

It’s a new turn in what has been a PR disaster for the company. And it fails to take into account the power of social media to punish companies whose employees go against their instincts as decent people because they felt bound to follow orders. Company leaders need to offer better employee training on all these points.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

They must view the company as a consumer would… being as discerning about buying their own services as they are about fine dining, premium clothing, gifts for friends, a car or a home. Thinking that quality needs apply to some other department, company or industry, not your own. Payroll is the biggest overhead item.

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Managing People on a Sinking Ship

Harvard Business Review

Amy Edmondson, a professor at Harvard Business School and author of “ Strategies for Learning from Failure ,” says that of course it’s not easy to “keep people enthused, engaged, and working hard when they know the company may not be around.” A larger company has bought your business unit. Case study #1: Take care of your team.

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How to Lead During a Data Breach

Harvard Business Review

In 2007, I wrote a case study for Harvard Business Review , “ Boss, I Think Someone Stole our Customer Data.” In this case, trust should be the “true north” for Target in its dealings with its many stakeholders. Target is a company that takes security and customer trust seriously. Are you ready?

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