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LeadershipNow 140: January 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

Do team values unite or divide your team? Team Building: Let The Big Dogs Bark First from @JohnBaldoni. Here are a selection of tweets from January 2017 that you might have missed: Don’t you love the beginning of a new year? by @mark_sanborn. JesseLynStoner. Your Only Competition Is Yourself by @paul_larue.

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Adapt Your Strategy to Higher Interest Rates

Harvard Business Review

To do that, executives need to rediscover the concept of economic profit (EP) — that is, revenue minus not just operating and administrative costs, but also the cost of the capital needed to produce that revenue.

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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). David Ulrich, is a highly respected thought leader, wonderful person and perhaps the world’s top HR consultant.

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Five New Year’s Resolutions Every Leader Should Make

Harvard Business Review

By building a dedicated team of talent , sponsors see a measurable benefit to their own careers: White leaders — both men and women — with a posse of protégés are 11% more satisfied with their own rate of advancement than those who haven’t invested in up-and-comers. Why take on the responsibility — and risk — of becoming a sponsor?

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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

All that corruption helped them hit quarterly EPS targets. Over 20 years, we looked at the difference between leadership teams that successfully “moved the needle” on the culture and those that didn’t. Mid-managers don’t root for each other’s success or play to win as a team. (DO). That’s what Wells Fargo did.

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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. It’s a case of the invisible man,” he explains.

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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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