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101 Things I Learned in Business School

Leading Blog

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: The higher one rises in an organization, the more one must be a generalist.

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How to Diversify Your Happiness

Next Level Blog

Over time, the balanced investment approach of asset diversification has proven to yield reasonably predictable rates of return. Not super sexy rates of return, but rates in which you can have some degree of confidence. And, by now, you may be asking yourself, “I thought this was a leadership blog.

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Seven Ways Leaders Impact Training’s Return on Investment

Kevin Eikenberry

People often talk increasing the return on investment for training, and generally, most people point to others to be responsible for that return, or measure that return.

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Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Business

Coaching Tip

The following seven leadership best practices identify what organizations in the top 20 percent of financially performing companies are doing differently from the bottom performers and how much more likely they are to be successful compared to organizations that are not using the identified best practice. .

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Most Industries Are Nowhere Close to Realizing the Potential of Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Once the strategic vision is in place, senior leadership, including the CEO, will need to champion it personally in order to overcome institutional resistance and break down silos between departments. Another critical piece of the puzzle is acquiring the right capabilities.

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Requiring Companies to Disclose Climate Risks Helps Everyone

Harvard Business Review

” In such a case, a firm’s leadership may respond sluggishly to evolving risks. A recent NBER working paper documents that from 1985 to 2014 this trading strategy would have yielded a large annualized average rate of return of 9.2%.

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3 Emerging Market Risks Companies Should Watch for in 2018

Harvard Business Review

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. We believe that business-friendly candidates could win, but companies should make sure that their Mexico investments have an acceptable rate of return even under this populist scenario. When it comes to Brazil, the economy is picking up.