The people part of business operations.
You might wonder why I am talking to CEO’s about Surgones. Every company has roles that require an increbily high level of IQ and technical skills, but even in those roles, Emotional Intelligence is the differentiator of sucsess. This article helps expain why your bright and higly analytical people still need Emotional Intelligence in the […]
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Kim Christfort, National Managing Director, The Deloitte Greenhouse™ Experience team In a time of accelerating change, increasing disruption, and heightened uncertainty, success demands unprecedented levels of resilience and flexibility from executives. CEOs in particular must strike a dynamic balance between seemingly paradoxical priorities – embracing risk while mitigating it, exploring new, untested, business models while
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Mostafa Sayyadi, Author, Leading Between the Lines Effective talent management is needed to achieve a high degree of sustainable competitive performance. Executives can improve performance by taking a more strategic approach—suggesting that organization’s collective-interests are strategic tools that need to be managed to create competitiveness. Executives can therefore contribute to organizational performance through developing relationships with
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Mostafa Sayyadi, Author, Leading Between the Lines Executives today are focusing on customer and employee relationship management. Executives today are also focused on strategic management decision making due to the hypercompetitive global environment and the public and private sector evaluation and opinion. Public organizations are attempting to function as private profit-wise while public companies have the Wall Street
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Kathy Bloomgarden, CEO, Ruder Finn As companies seek a new strategic vision in a digital age, mergers are on the rise. Many of the mergers on the table are driven by the urgency to transform business strategy and gain scale. This is leading to the combination of companies with widely varying cultures. In this context, it’s
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Nobody I know proudly brags about being a micromanager. Frankly, most vehemently deny the label. Yet the workplace overflows with them. Here’s how to spot them on your team before you give them even bigger opportunities to frustrate the people who work with them. And if deep down you fear you may be falling into
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Mostafa Sayyadi, Author, Leading Between the Lines Today‘s globalized nature of business is placing more pressure on companies to employ change management leaders who are capable to build learning companies. There are many studies that focus on the organizational factors that drive organizational innovation. Structure is one such area that plays a critical role and is
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One of the toughest parts of being a leader is giving and getting feedback. Without feedback no one knows where they stand. Input from those involved is a must-do when it comes to overall performance and productivity. Today is feedback day. Conduct casual one-on-one interviews with team members—from those who contributed heavily first, to recognize
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Mostafa Sayyadi, Author, Leading Between the Lines This article presents executives with a set of principles that can be implemented to improve learning, enhance customer and employee satisfaction while still keeping the shareholder or public sector performance. Executives can do this by using what is known in the practical realm as Strategic Leadership in Learning
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Oleg Konovalov, Author, Corporate Superpower: Cultivating a Winning Culture for Your Business An organization’s culture informs its members of the behavior which is most appropriate for certain environmental conditions, and by doing so, allows people to achieve their goals. Thus, culture is accountable for achieving a certain level of excellence in living and development. In terms of governance
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