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Top Leadership Experts to Follow in 2015

Modern Servant Leader

Maybe you need a leadership development expert or public speaker. Or, maybe you’re focused on personal development and want to find the best content online to help you grow as a leader. Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. Zondervan Author.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

.” There is a virtuous cycle between productivity and people: Higher levels of productivity allow society to reinvest in human capital (most obviously, though not exclusively, via higher wages), and smart investments result in higher labor productivity. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

For more than 10 years now I have been helping people to develop their own Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME). The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions.

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Case Study: The Gentleman's 3

Harvard Business Review

Between the inner and outer doors of Circale Corporation's headquarters building, human resources VP Nils Ekdahl crossed paths with CFO Anita Fierst as he was leaving for lunch. "We So the CEO had given the HR department a green light to create a new system that would force managers to be brutally honest. He called Milanese.