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JANUARY 31, 2017

Five tips for hiring (and holding on to) young people via Management Today @MT_editorial. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. The Impoverishment of Attention by Shane Parrish @farnamstreet. Five Culture Killers in Your Organization by @GrowingLeaders. by @ericaarielfox.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

How can leaders leverage and develop diverse talent in 2014? The answer, according to CTI’s latest research , is a diverse workforce managed by leaders who cherish difference, embrace disruption, and foster a speak-up culture. Leadership roles are given to those who also look and act the part, who manifest “executive presence” (EP).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds. This is a situation that cannot endure.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

Why isn’t more of that cash going into developing businesses for long-term gains — the big, outsized gains that come from big bets on the future? This is a classic story of unintended consequences — inadvertently short-circuiting long-term management — to the detriment of companies, investors, and the economy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Levi Strauss, intriguingly, has used biomimetic techniques in developing new production techniques for jeans. We're moving towards innovation in technology, pricing, business models and partnerships," explains head of corporate responsibility management, Dorje Mundle, of the company's base-of-the-pyramid operations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. This has long seemed intuitively true to us.

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