I have always prided myself on being a great multi-tasker. I have been known to work on writing a script while listening to an employee tell me about a day out in the field. I have worked on invoices while listening to a webinar. I am writing this as I sit on an airplane traveling […]
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Martine Liautaud, Author, Breaking Through: Stories and Best Practices from Companies That Help Women Leaders Succeed Diversity is not a fashionable fancy that helps filling up a few pages in the Annual Report. Diversity is a true and efficient response to the challenge of growth, inside and outside the corporate world. Women are the force that
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There are many ideas about the factors that contribute to the ethics of an organization. These ideas range from ethical leadership to a concern for stakeholders to having a mission beyond economic success. While these ideas seem plausible, there is little evidence to support them. More importantly, there is often little you can do to
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Dr. Mario Moussa, Dr. Derek Newberry & Madeline Boyer, Authors, Committed Teams: Three Steps to Inspiring Passion and Performance The executive team at Ford Motor Company in the 1950s made one of the best decisions and then one of the worst decisions in company history. Our research and experience at the Wharton School tells us that
Janice Marturano, Executive Director, Institute for Mindful Leadership Stop for a moment, right now, and ask yourself ‘when was the last time I felt inspired?’ How did feeling inspired affect my performance, my life? Who inspired me and, more importantly, how did they do it? The same busyness and continuous partial attention that can often render
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Jay Friedman, Partner & COO, Goodway Group When I tell CEOs that our entire 300+ person staff works from home, the look I get is nearly always the same. About 10% intrigue and 90% horror. After we get past their assumption that we spend all day video chatting (we use it occasionally but not often), they
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Ken Marlin, Author, The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street: 11 Key Principles from Battlefield to Boardroom In the early 1970s, I attended what the Marine Corps calls “The Basic School” or “TBS”. That’s where newly minted Marine Corps officers learn how to lead men in ground combat. I learned a lot at TBS as
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Aaron Allred, Founder & CEO, Simple Finance We have conversations with hundreds of retailers every month, and one topic emerges in nearly every conversation: the number of customers leaving a store empty-handed because they didn’t qualify for credit. The retail business—a nearly $5 trillion per year market in the U.S., reports the Census Bureau—is riddled with
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Did you ever play a game as a child when you made up the rules as you went along? I’m guessing that those evolving rules often proved to be a source of contention! Leaders at work find the same to be true. When managers decide to disregard their moral compass as the official business handbook,
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Mark Royal, Senior Principal, Korn Ferry Hay Group In today’s highly competitive environment in which organizations must optimize every resource—especially talent—employee engagement is a powerful tool for driving performance. Employees who are highly engaged and well positioned for success are better able to deliver more, and organizations that are known for high employee engagement become magnets
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