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What Motivates Power-Hungry Bosses

The Horizons Tracker

“If you can think back to a time when banks had branches with local managers, it has been very well-documented that they are much better at assessing credit risks than people back in head office, for example,” the authors explain.

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The Value of Value Chain Analysis in Transforming Your Business

N2Growth Blog

For example, determining skill gaps and training staff could be core activities here; Perform – which contains a collection of core work activities that support the key mission of the department.

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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

What do leadership teams most struggle with in the new environment? The leadership teams that get good at this typically form and re-form cross-functional teams to deploy on issues as they arise, rather than waiting for conventional departmental responses. How will AI impact the bulletproof approach? But that isn’t the whole story.

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10 Ways to be a Better Team Player :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Categories : Communications , Ethics , Leadership , decision-making Echo Garrett is the National Practice Manager for KPMGs Financial Credit Risk practice and a Co-Founder of "Her Voice", a National Womens Organization that brings women together for local support and charitable opportunities.

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For Successful Collaboration, Think Outside the Box

Harvard Business Review

He explained that his organization was highly functionalized with separate units for sales, trading, investing, portfolio management, credit, risk, and operations; some of which reported to him and some to the corporate center.