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LeadershipNow 140: January 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

How Would You Answer This Question About Your Leadership? How Will Leadership Change in the Cognitive Era? 4 New Entrepreneur Problems You’re Going to Face and How to Road-Map Them by @SusanSolovic. How to Improve Trust With One Word by @MarySchaefer. The Impoverishment of Attention by Shane Parrish @farnamstreet.

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Cracking the Code That Stalls Multicultural Professionals

Harvard Business Review

Top jobs are given to those who also look and act the part, who manifest “executive presence” (EP). According to new CTI research (PDF) , EP constitutes 26% of what senior leaders say it takes to get the next promotion. And the feedback that might help them do so is markedly absent at all levels of management.

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Five New Year’s Resolutions Every Leader Should Make

Harvard Business Review

Leadership roles are given to those who also look and act the part, who manifest “executive presence” (EP). According to CTI research , EP constitutes 26% of what senior leaders say it takes to get the next promotion. Across the board, 56% of minority professionals feel they are held to a stricter code of EP than their Caucasian peers.

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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

All that corruption helped them hit quarterly EPS targets. Their raft might be micromanaging what gets done and how it gets done. Putting down the raft means describing targeted outcomes then empowering people closest to the work to make the decisions about how to achieve those targets. That’s what Wells Fargo did.

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U.S. Latinos Feel They Can’t Be Themselves at Work

Harvard Business Review

They modify their appearance, body language, and communication style — all components of executive presence (EP), that intangible element that defines leadership material. ” More than half (53%) of Latinas and 44% of Latinos say that EP at their company is defined by conforming to traditionally white, male standards.

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Dress for the Job You Want?

Harvard Business Review

Hectored by the blogosphere, mocked by the press, UBS has recanted its 43-page employee primer on how to appear polished, proficient, and professional. within large corporations) identified when asked what contributed to, or detracted from, "executive presence" (EP) at their firm.

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Business Needs to Do What Government Can't

Harvard Business Review

As Ashoka CEO Bill Drayton told us, the ongoing shift in our economies means we must abandon institutions where a few people tell "everyone else how to repeat together efficiently, be it a law firm or an assembly line, a world characterized by a limited and vertical nervous system."

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