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101 Things I Learned in Business School

Leading Blog

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: The higher one rises in an organization, the more one must be a generalist.

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How to Diversify Your Happiness

Next Level Blog

Over time, the balanced investment approach of asset diversification has proven to yield reasonably predictable rates of return. Not super sexy rates of return, but rates in which you can have some degree of confidence. And, by now, you may be asking yourself, “I thought this was a leadership blog.

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Self-awareness (plus action) Translates to the Bottom-line

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was recently published in SmartBlog on Leadership : According to a new study by the Korn-Ferry Institute, “knowing thyself” isn’t just a nice-to-to; self-awareness flows directly to a firm’s bottom-line I’ve been sharing this information with my network and it’s generating a lot of interest. It’s called the “knowing-doing gap”.

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SELF-AWARENESS & FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

Coaching Tip

An analysis by Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY) shows that public companies with a higher rate of return (ROR) also employ professionals who exhibit higher levels of self-awareness. . Building Your Leadership Brand. Managing a Successful Career. A collective focus on personal improvement leads to improvements in the organization.”.

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Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Business

Coaching Tip

In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape expected to continue for 2015, leaders face many challenges , requiring aggressive, sustained talent management strategies to prepare them for success. Two times more likely to place value on interacting over managing skills.

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How to Give a Robot a Job Review

Harvard Business Review

Effective executives understand the productivity and customer loyalty future depends as much on motivating and managing their machines as inspiring their people. Empowering smart machines to — pun intended — live up to their potential may well become the essential new 21st-century leadership skill.

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Most Industries Are Nowhere Close to Realizing the Potential of Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Once the strategic vision is in place, senior leadership, including the CEO, will need to champion it personally in order to overcome institutional resistance and break down silos between departments. It takes time to execute these types of organizational changes—and the pace is wholly dependent on the actions taken by management.