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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

All organizations, lawful and unlawful, face the same corporate governance problem: how to attract, retain, and motivate a self-interested workforce to achieve the organization’s mission and strategy. Relentless offers five transformative leadership lessons that leadership training programs must incorporate and promote. These include: 1.

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

Strategy Driven

They learned and practiced how to communicate effectively and resolve conflicts, build teams to succeed, lead meetings that didn’t waste time, lead change that would stick, walk the talk with our organizational values, and finally how to engage and manage our talent. Leadership Inspirations – How to Have a Positive Impact.

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Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company. For example, in finance courses students learn that profitability and return on assets is the measure of business success.

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Focus on Keeping Up with Your Customers, Not Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing). Or figuring out how to help them do what they want?

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Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

Profits that are received at some future point are discounted by the real cost of finance and any appropriate risk premium. The number in each cell of the table indicates how much faster the profit of the subsidiary must grow to make its owner whole. The highest estimate that we could find from recent, peer-reviewed studies was a 1.08

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