Change is the only constant and leaders must rise to the challenge consistently. Agility in such an environment and the ability to pivot and change tactics to ensure positive outcomes is essential in our ever-changing market environments.
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It’s a well-known maxim that the top 20% of employees are responsible for 80% of organizational output. Further, the top 5% and top 1% of employees account for 25% and 10% of organizational output. Further, hiring top talent pays off as jobs increase in complexity. Identifying top talent in the marketplace is one of the
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Millennials: Disrupting the status quo Millennials: they’re challenging the status quo in every aspect of society, including the corporate sector.
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We’ve all seen the films: before a crucial game for an underdog team, a battle where the army is outnumbered, the coach or general exhorts the players or soldiers to give their all to win. It’s not just a plea for victory: the speech places those individuals in the middle of the action, connecting them
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Today, more than ever, executives have the tools at their fingertips to make informed decisions based on rational data. Further, leaders are more aware of cognitive biases that interfere with good decisions. Yet, the very data that gives us knowledge threatens to overwhelm and business organizations have become more complex and hierarchical—a case of too
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“All effective leaders are effective leader developers,” says Bernard Banks, retired Brigadier General of the US Army and now X at Kellogg School of Management. Banks noted that upon leaving military service after a 25-year career, he saw a disconnect between the military and the business world in the way they cultivated leaders. In business,
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Millennials and a shift in buying behavior According to Deloitte’s Perspectives report ‘Investment Management Outlook 2017,’ one major trend likely to impact our industry in the coming year is “a shift in buyer behavior as the Millennial generation becomes a greater force in the investing marketplace.” If investment management firms want to drive growth, they
The gender gap in both pay and representation is a pervasive problem in business today and I suppose it is not surprising that it extends into the political realm as well. While the existence of the gap may not surprise you, some of the reasons might.
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Trust has become a high priority Trust.. it’s a high priority issue these days. Since the financial crisis of 2008, trust has catapulted into the limelight and the impact on CEOs has been significant. Below, a few intriguing takeaways on the issue from PwC’s recently released 20th CEO Survey:
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Humans create a lot of waste. Over the last century, as technology has provided us with machines to make our lives easier and many products for daily living have become affordable — we are throwing more and more “stuff” away. Looked at from an economics perspective, our economy functions on a linear basis — make,
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