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October 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the October 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Development. Julie Winkle Giulioni shared Development Plan or Development Planning?

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business Review

a condo development, apartment building, or golf course). Following the real estate metaphor, the PE company is less like a house flipper and more like a property developer: each separate home is designed, built, bought, and sold as an independent property. In this phase, the acquired property is not just managed, but transformed.

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The Type of Socially Responsible Investments That Make Firms More Profitable

Harvard Business Review

With this intuition we could hypothesize about the ESG investments that would be financially important for different industries, but until recently we had no objective and systematic way of making those judgments. SASB uses the U.S.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

And the average long-term ROE is more than 25%, reflecting improved efficiency combined with greater reliance on financial leverage at most companies. In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies.

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I Got My Strategy from Greenpeace

Harvard Business Review

But there our story deviates from the norm because our turnaround wasn't based on cost control, financial leverage, or manufacturing efficiencies. Signing up to Cradle-to-Cradle has forced us to learn how to develop closed loop systems where our products are designed for disassembly after being returned.