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Are Your Most Talented People Losing Their Minds?

Harvard Business Review

So just how closely should management monitor their employees' minds? Savvy managers are always sensitive to what might be going wrong as what should be getting better. Get ready to manage them. For knowledge-intensive industries, people's talent, expertise and ingenuity are essential ingredients for success. My bet is, no.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Performance problems should be managed fairly and with little judgment of the person’s underlying character, unless that is the issue at the root of the trouble.

Company 62
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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Performance problems should be managed fairly and with little judgment of the person’s underlying character, unless that is the issue at the root of the trouble.

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Spotting the Great but Imperfect Resume

Harvard Business Review

Directors keep nudging these CEOs to play it safe, filling the management team with steady performers whose work history closely matches the job at hand, even if there's no sense of "wow!" Imagine the remorse of a venture capitalist unwilling to back Steve Jobs in 1977, because the personal-computer pioneer never finished college.

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Calculating the Market Value of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Organizational refers to the systems these leaders create to manage leadership throughout the organization and the application of organization systems to specific business conditions. intellectual, emotional, social, physical, and ethical behaviors)? Executor: To what extent do leaders make things happen and deliver as promised?

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Does a robot manage your money? A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. Kearney predicts that assets under “robo-management” will total $2.2

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

The lean-startup software ethic of launching minimal viable products in order to fail fast and learn is a challenge in many businesses and especially in healthcare where no one wants a minimum viable pacemaker or “lightly tested” drug. Experimentation is vital.