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LeadershipNow 140: January 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

Do You Lead Positive? 2 Self-Leadership Hacks for Positivity by @AlanDUtley. The Impoverishment of Attention by Shane Parrish @farnamstreet. Five Culture Killers in Your Organization by @GrowingLeaders. The 5 Worst Mistakes Leaders Make When they Apologize by @WScottCochrane. 523: Tom Asacker Interview with Michael Covel.

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Their Commitment Might Mean More Than Our Insight

Marshall Goldsmith

Dave once taught me that effective performance can be seen as a function of the quality of an idea times the employee’s commitment to make it happen (EP = QI x C). When I was much younger and very naïve, I foolishly believed that my own wisdom was the key to helping my clients achieve positive, lasting changes in behavior.

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Strong Dollar, Weak Thinking

Harvard Business Review

The standard concern is that the high US dollar hurts America’s manufacturing cost position because US production costs are inflated by the dollar’s appreciation. This puts downward pressure on stock prices because with lower EPS growth, shareholder expectations of future growth drop, lowering EPS multiples and hence stock prices.

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Five New Year’s Resolutions Every Leader Should Make

Harvard Business Review

Unlike mentors, who act as sympathetic sounding boards, sponsors are people in positions of power who work on their protégé’s behalf to clear obstacles, foster connections, assign higher-profile work to ease the move up the ranks, and provide aircover and support in case of stumbles. Be a more active ally.

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Cracking the Code That Stalls Multicultural Professionals

Harvard Business Review

It’s a topic which corporations once routinely ignored, then dismissed, and are only now beginning to discuss: the dearth of multicultural professionals in senior positions. Top jobs are given to those who also look and act the part, who manifest “executive presence” (EP).

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The Authenticity Trap for Workers Who Are Not Straight, White Men

Harvard Business Review

Moving up in an organization depends on looking and acting like a leader, on being perceived as having “executive presence” (EP). According to research from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI), EP constitutes 26% of what senior leaders say it takes to get to the next promotion.

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Business Needs to Do What Government Can't

Harvard Business Review

Breakthrough is about the establishment of new models that better account for businesses' negative (and positive) externalities. "We PUMA has led the field; its then-CEO Jochen Zeitz conceived an Environmental Profit and Loss (EP&L) for the company with PwC and Trucost. Zeitz is also rolling out the EP&L across the holding group PPR.

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