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101 Things I Learned in Business School

Leading Blog

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: The higher one rises in an organization, the more one must be a generalist.

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Put a Little Air in the Balloon

Great Leadership By Dan

Pins in the form of statements or hard-to-answer questions like “that won’t work here”, “we already tried that”, “it’s too expensive”, “that’s too farfetched”, “yeah, but…”, “did you do a 3 year rate of return analysis?”, creativity innovation possibility thinking leadership environment' and other balloon-popping reactions.

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Seven Ways Leaders Impact Training’s Return on Investment

Kevin Eikenberry

People often talk increasing the return on investment for training, and generally, most people point to others to be responsible for that return, or measure that return.

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How to Diversify Your Happiness

Next Level Blog

Over time, the balanced investment approach of asset diversification has proven to yield reasonably predictable rates of return. Not super sexy rates of return, but rates in which you can have some degree of confidence. And, by now, you may be asking yourself, “I thought this was a leadership blog.

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Self-awareness (plus action) Translates to the Bottom-line

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was recently published in SmartBlog on Leadership : According to a new study by the Korn-Ferry Institute, “knowing thyself” isn’t just a nice-to-to; self-awareness flows directly to a firm’s bottom-line I’ve been sharing this information with my network and it’s generating a lot of interest.

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Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Business

Coaching Tip

The following seven leadership best practices identify what organizations in the top 20 percent of financially performing companies are doing differently from the bottom performers and how much more likely they are to be successful compared to organizations that are not using the identified best practice. . Can''t Get Enough Leadership.

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SELF-AWARENESS & FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

Coaching Tip

An analysis by Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY) shows that public companies with a higher rate of return (ROR) also employ professionals who exhibit higher levels of self-awareness. . Building Your Leadership Brand. A collective focus on personal improvement leads to improvements in the organization.”. Related articles.