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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

You would think that an Ivy League institution like Cornell University would be a model of the best practices of leadership throughout its organization since Cornell and most universities believe they are growing the next generation of leaders for our country and our world. not necessarily and not always. That got everyone’s attention!

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The Countries with the Boldest Business Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Our leadership development work with organizations has given us a database of 360-degree assessments from over 75,000 business leaders around the world. We called this the “bold index” — we then compared it to 42 other leadership behaviors. Creates an atmosphere of continual improvement. also ranked highly.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Banks and lenders have predictive analytics engines that tell the lender the probability that a customer will pay them back. These intangible factors like culture, leadership, and motivation do not yield easily to empirical analysis. Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans.

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If There’s Only One Woman in Your Candidate Pool, There’s Statistically No Chance She’ll Be Hired

Harvard Business Review

So because 95% of CEOs are white men , the status quo bias can lead board members to unconsciously prefer to hire more white men for leadership roles. In our first study, using an experimental setting, we had 144 undergraduate students review qualifications of three job candidates who made up a finalist pool of applicants.