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LeadershipNow 140: January 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

How Would You Answer This Question About Your Leadership? How Will Leadership Change in the Cognitive Era? 4 New Entrepreneur Problems You’re Going to Face and How to Road-Map Them by @SusanSolovic. How to Improve Trust With One Word by @MarySchaefer. The Impoverishment of Attention by Shane Parrish @farnamstreet.

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Five New Year’s Resolutions Every Leader Should Make

Harvard Business Review

How can leaders leverage and develop diverse talent in 2014? Sponsors of color who have developed young talent are overall 30% more satisfied with their career progress than those who haven’t built that base of support. Leadership roles are given to those who also look and act the part, who manifest “executive presence” (EP).

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U.S. Latinos Feel They Can’t Be Themselves at Work

Harvard Business Review

They modify their appearance, body language, and communication style — all components of executive presence (EP), that intangible element that defines leadership material. ” More than half (53%) of Latinas and 44% of Latinos say that EP at their company is defined by conforming to traditionally white, male standards.

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Business Needs to Do What Government Can't

Harvard Business Review

Levi Strauss, intriguingly, has used biomimetic techniques in developing new production techniques for jeans. PUMA has led the field; its then-CEO Jochen Zeitz conceived an Environmental Profit and Loss (EP&L) for the company with PwC and Trucost. Zeitz is also rolling out the EP&L across the holding group PPR.

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4 Ways CEOs Can Conquer Short-Termism

Harvard Business Review

Bertolini observed that many of his peers had been promising 15% earnings per share (EPS), even during the financial crisis of 2009. ” Bertolini and his team studied the industry and concluded that a reasonable target was no more than 6% EPS. . The company’s stated purpose is to “help people walk through walls.”

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