Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category

Great Companies Take Time to Develop Great Leaders

 

Improving business results

 

New research from Hay Group provides empirical evidence that the best companies have the best leaders. In its sixth annual assessment of the impact of leadership recruitment, training and management style on corporate success, the U.S. global management company offers a top 20 list that …

People Are Different — but Shouldn’t Be

Building Leadership

Building Leadership

While most business leaders say people are their company’s most important asset, and most human resource departments keep data on things like:

  • Turnover
  • Performance Distributions
  • Employee Engagement

Few are applying the kind of metrics that finance executives use, says John Boudreau of the University of Southern California’s Marshall …

Quantifying the Value of Effective Leadership

Value of Leadership

A recent research program at Kenexa looked at what causes employees to view their leaders as effective. The program enabled researchers to create the leadership effectiveness index, a new metric that measures the extent to which employees believe their leaders communicate their vision, handle challenges, value employees, …

Corporate Culture: Whose Job Is It?

Company Culture

Experts say management involves a focus on timelines, budgets, and metrics, among other things, while leadership involves a focus on vision, buy-in, motivation, culture, and people.  Being successful in management may result in a leadership position, but leaders must do well when it comes to culture to achieve success in …

Transforming Your Organization

According to the authors of the book “The Orange Revolution,” there are several factors that make for a successful team. For the best-functioning teams each member has:

Teamwork

  • Ambitious goals
  • Perseveres through difficulty and change
  • Takes calculated risks and measures results
  • Tells stories to illustrate what they are trying to accomplish
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Mindfulness as a Tool for Organizational and Social Change

Most discussions of corporate social responsibility focus on actions and decisions at the corporate, organizational level, but it also involves individuals that are considering the costs and benefits of social responsibility factors. Pravir Malik, an organizational change consultant began a project to examine mindfulness in the workplace as a tool …