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Leadership programs often emphasize the operational mechanics of leading—planning, organizing, budgeting and content that leans more toward management, such as delegating, time management and giving feedback. What most leadership programs neglect to cover, but that new leaders quickly confront, is how political, ever-changing and unpredictable leadership actually is.  In reality, the emotional aspects of leading
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Of the many concerns voiced by CEOs and board members, one is increasingly communicated loud and clear: Even as we fight mounting concerns about a recession, the battle for talent is dominating the corporate landscape. Growing competition for talent is the biggest concern over the next year, according to recent surveys. The majority of CEOs
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For more than 20 years, Jeff Bezos fought against the entropy inherent in large organizations. He demanded that Amazon always act as a startup, that it would always be Day 1 at Amazon. As he said in his 1997 shareholder letter, “Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by
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Creating a successful AI-based solution is different from regular software development because how it will operate in a real-world situation isn’t easily predicted. Development is an interactive process that requires extensive testing to ensure it will work well with a company’s existing workflow and deliver a worthwhile return on its investment. As such, effective implementation
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Richard Carey had a strange experience recently: After years of using every possible tactic to recruit and retain scarce manufacturing employees, the CEO of Metal Ware laid off a handful of people when a supplier’s aluminum mill went down. Carey’s team ranked its employees and pared those with the shoddiest attendance and overall performance. “There
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“The property of being environmentally sustainable; the degree to which a process or enterprise is able to be maintained or continued while avoiding the long-term depletion of natural resources.”   … Definition of Sustainability in the Oxford English Dictionary One of the hottest topics in business over the past few years has been that of “Sustainability,”
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After three years of coping with a poor hand in a labor-squeezed economy, which followed a decade of gradually deteriorating leverage, companies are seeing that this year’s slowdown may have nudged the pendulum back in their direction. But CEOs expecting a quick rebalancing of the relationship between labor and management are likely to be disappointed,
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We could not have started Home Depot without the right people—Arthur Blank, Ken Langone, Ron Brill, Rip Fleming, Pat Farrah and dozens of others. Everyone had their strengths. Arthur was meticulous and ran things like a clock. Ron, Ken and Rip brought additional expertise and energy. I’m an idea guy who loves to roam around
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Chile’s recent rejection of a new constitution highlights that democracies do not want to be micromanaged. Chile’s proposed constitution included 388 articles outlined in 170 pages enshrining a series of prescriptive rules as the law of the land. Luckily, the people of Chile soundly voted it down. Passage would have reversed the “Miracle of Chile,”
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There are many terms being used to describe what’s happening with today’s workforce: “The Great Resignation.” “The Great Regret.” “Quiet Quitting.” However, there’s another trend at play that I believe is one of the main culprits of today’s workplace turmoil. I call it “The Era of Lost Productivity.” Just look at the statistics: U.S. worker
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Collaboration tends to suffer when it’s most needed: in times of extreme pressure or crisis. Findings from our analyses of the 2008 financial crisis underscore that pressure on individuals and teams can threaten collaboration—which means that those businesses miss out on opportunities for innovation, joint problem solving and other ways to tap into their employees’
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“We have always considered Patagonia an experiment in doing business in unconventional ways.” These are the words of Yvon Chouinard – the founder of multi-billion-dollar outdoor apparel company Patagonia. He has often done things differently and even said, “I never wanted to be a businessman.” Recently, you might have read that Yvon “gave away his
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You might wonder why you should take time out of an already overcrowded schedule to focus on investing in entry-level employees. But the young people at your company are your leaders of tomorrow. If you invest in them now, then in 20 years, they will be the executives making the big decisions and keeping your
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Adam Markel has passionately explored and made us feel the adventure in his latest book ‘Change Proof, leveraging the power of uncertainty to build long-term resilience”. As rightly said by Marshall Goldsmith the New York Times #1 best-selling author of Triggers, Mojo, and what got you here won’t get you there; ‘build resiliency in yourself,
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