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Leadership Lessons from the Banking Upheaval

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Jean-Marc Laouchez , Hay Group: “Banking is no longer somewhere that you go, it’s something that you do.” - Brett King, Banking 3.0. When was the last time you visited a bank branch? In Africa, some telecoms providers have bypassed traditional banks completely. My kids have never seen the inside of one.

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Leadership Development as a 5 Year Journey

Great Leadership By Dan

A proven best practice to improve as a leader is to create and follow-through on an Individual Development Plan (IDP). If you were to go to a bank or venture capitalist and ask for funding to start your new business, they would never accept a one-year business plan. Attend a leadership/executive development program.

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Can Lawyers Lead?

N2Growth Blog

Besides providing stellar legal advice to clients, they’re a leadership development factory helping young lawyers sharpen their leadership acumen and soft skills at every step of their career. If lawyers can overcome these tough leadership development obstacles, the rewards are enormous. You should take his advice seriously.

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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

The fast-paced expansion of FinTech companies into long-distance geographies has increased the Penrose effect , thus escalating the managerial constraints affecting organizational growth and development. EBRD has always been one of the leading innovators in the space of sustainable investing and also FinTech.

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Can AI Help Us Understand Whether To Bail Out Banks?

The Horizons Tracker

The decision to bail out banks en masse in 2009 was widely adopted yet far from uncontroversial. Research from UCL explores whether AI can help governments to decide whether to bail out a bank in crisis or not. This short-term cost is justified to the taxpayer because the long-term costs of bank defaults would be more harmful.

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The Story of U.S. Business Is the Story of Real Estate

Leading Blog

T HE STORY of American business is the story of real estate — a story of more than 200 years of claiming, seizing, developing, settling, and speculating in vast areas of land. Real estate developers will capitalize on infrastructure investment. Wealthy colonials organized massive land companies well before the American Revolution.

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Three Must Do’s for Leaders Leading Through Change

Next Level Blog

As reported in the New York Times this week, the World Bank is in the midst of a two year restructuring effort. The basic goal of the change is to shift from the Bank’s decades-long regional structure to one that is organized around areas of functional expertise. Another goal is to reduce expenses.