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Executive Search Firms in Finance: Unlocking Fiscal Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Every organization has unique dynamics and strategic goals, from investment banks to hedge funds and private equity firms. Top Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) possess the ability to convey complex financial concepts in a clear and concise manner to both their team members and key stakeholders.

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Sustainable Leadership and Organizations: The Ideas of Martin Seligman

Michael Lee Stallard

2 Comments so far william czander on May 31st, 2010 Happiness coaches are part of the great conspiracy that began some 20 years ago when CEO’s , hedge fund managers and bankers discovered if they outsourced jobs to China and India it would increase the bottom line and they would all get rich. (To Remember “smile or your fired”.

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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. He wrote a short document titled Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager and used it to train his team on his basic expectations.

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Pushing Employees to Go the Extra Mile Can Be Counterproductive

Harvard Business Review

To find out, we designed a pair of studies that would measure the ethical repercussions of externally motivated organizational citizenship. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Surveying 180 teams of employees and managers at U.S. Good acts build up credits which act as a hedge against the debits of future bad acts.

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Calculating the Market Value of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

The leadership ratings index we have developed has two dimensions, or domains: individual and organizational. Individual refers to the personal qualities (competencies, traits, characteristics) of both the top leader and the key leadership team in the organization. intellectual, emotional, social, physical, and ethical behaviors)?

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When Success is Born Out of Serendipity

Harvard Business Review

The obvious targets were people in the field of innovation — those working in strategy, R&D, business development, and entrepreneurship. What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? In response, I usually tell the following story. Lucky thing, that.