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5 Most Important Leadership Competencies for Function Leaders

Center for Creative Leadership

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. They run business units and geographic regions. We surveyed nearly 1,000 leaders to find out.

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Small and Young Businesses Are Especially Vulnerable to Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Challenge risk financing conventions. Businesses likely need new forms of risk financing.

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Hiring and Managing in Turbulent Times

Harvard Business Review

In each country, following recent elections and referendums, they are facing political, social, and economic uncertainties we would never have imagined just a year ago. The late 1940s were a tough time for the fledgling electronic equipment maker that would eventually become one of the America’s best-known technology companies.

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

After a year of uncertainty and tumult, Congress finally got around to making some crucial decisions in the last month of 2010. Categories : Finance , Guest Posts 1 Comments 1 Tweets that mention A Couple Reasons to Smile About :: Women on Business -- Topsy.com January 11th, 2011 at 10:45 pm [.]

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Stop Waiting for Governments to Close the Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

There are many explanations for growing inequality and stagnant wages, but studies have found that so-called “skills premiums” — higher wages for more-skilled workers — have been a significant factor in growing income inequality, and technology is the reason why that premium has risen.

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What to Do When You Can’t Predict Your Talent Needs

Harvard Business Review

Forbes said , “Experts who had one big idea they were certain would reveal what was to come were handily beaten by those who used diverse information and analytical models, were comfortable with complexity and uncertainty and kept their confidence in check.”. Consider your talent resource like an investment portfolio.

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All Hail the Generalist

Harvard Business Review

In the six decades since Berlin's essay was published, hedgehogs have come to dominate academia, medicine, finance, law, and many other professional domains. Finally, there appears to be reasonable and robust data suggesting that generalists are better at navigating uncertainty. at all, only in some de facto way."

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