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Silence Kills: Are You Fostering Cowardly Communication?

The Practical Leader

A CEB poll found that nearly half of executive teams don’t get critical information because employees are afraid to be the bearers of bad news! Only 19% of executive team are promptly told of bad news that could have a big impact on the firm’s performance! How is your team doing? compared with 2.1%

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

greater annualized total shareholder return (TSR) 7.7% Ask yourself: Which behaviors create alignment across teams and help in decision making? Your mission clarifies this reason, differentiates your business from its competition, and keeps your teams focused on making a difference. greater revenue growth 34.7%

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

greater annualized total shareholder return (TSR). Ask yourself: Which behaviors create alignment across teams and help in decision making? Your mission clarifies this reason, differentiates your business from its competition, and keeps your teams focused on making a difference. greater revenue growth.

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Overcome Your Biases and Build a Great Team

Harvard Business Review

But there is a deeper lesson to my story that I hope will help others build exceptional, and exceptionally diverse, teams. Ironically, my story is a story of overcoming my own biases about diversity—and then using these hard-won insights to build one of the most diverse leadership teams and board of directors in the world.

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Activist Hedge Funds Aren’t Good for Companies or Investors, So Why Do They Exist?

Harvard Business Review

activist hedge fund investments Allaire studied, the mean compound annual TSR for the activists was 12.4% If they can get their target sold, the compound annual TSR jumps from a lackluster 12.4% Total shareholder return is what the activist hedge funds claim to enhance. But for the universe of U.S. to a stupendous 94.3%.

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How This Lingerie Store Boosted its Bottom Line, Despite the Downturn

Harvard Business Review

Determined not to lose her as a customer, and undeterred by the complication that the store did not stock the item that worked best for her shape, the Journelle sales team resorted to online shopping to find the ideal fit. There is also the case of the loyal elderly customer who could no longer make it into any of Journelle's locations.

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How This Lingerie Store Boosted its Bottom Line, Despite the Downturn

Harvard Business Review

Determined not to lose her as a customer, and undeterred by the complication that the store did not stock the item that worked best for her shape, the Journelle sales team resorted to online shopping to find the ideal fit. There is also the case of the loyal elderly customer who could no longer make it into any of Journelle's locations.

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