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2008 Best Companies for Leaders

15 February 2009

The 2008 Best Companies for Leaders survey is conducted by management consultancy Hay Group and Chief Executive Magazine. The survey seeks to identify the top 20 best-in class companies as well as the attributes that make these companies known for great leadership.  The Hay Group/Chief Executive survey reveals that the top 20 best companies for [...]

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The seven demands of leadership

3 September 2008

After decades of research and thousands of interviews with great leaders, Gallup research discovered seven factors crucial to leadership success which were identified as follows.

Visioning: “Successful leaders are able to look out, across, and beyond the organization. They have a talent for seeing and creating the future. They use highly visual language that paints [...]

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4 key factors that impact on organisational productivity

11 August 2008

The Institute for Corporate Productivity article “Productivity Is a Higher Priority, but Which Initiatives Really Work?” discussing a the May 2008 survey, of 305 respondents, asking questions about 16 factors that have the potential to raise productivity. Of the16 factors, the following five factors, corporate culture, leadership, compensation and benefit programs, training and development, and [...]

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Research reveals six key drivers for inspiring and retaining top talent

19 May 2008

“Take my 20 best people, and virtually overnight, Microsoft becomes a mediocre company.” – Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates

Great leaders are always of the lookout for talent and recognise the contribution and importance of other people in their success. Talent Management has a great article titled “Taking the Talent Pulse: What Drives High Potentials?” discussing [...]

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The secrets of inspiring leaders…

13 January 2008

Business Week has an article "The Seven Secrets of Inspiring Leaders" that reminds us of the importance of inspiration to leaders. A recent recent Maritz Research poll found that:
"Only 10% of employees look forward to going to work and most point to a lack of leadership as the reason why…"

The article discusses the following seven [...]

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Clarity the key to employee engagement

15 December 2007

Management-Issues published an article, "Clarity the key to employee engagement" reporting on research by HR consultancy Watson Wyatt that found that…
"… a poll of 14,000 employees across Europe has suggested that those companies that provide their employees with a clear ‘line of sight’ when it comes to vision and direction tend to have a much [...]

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The Leadership Vacumm

29 October 2007

IBM just released a study they’re calling the Global Human Capital Study 2008 and it provides some interesting reading and highlights the raising importance of leadership in organisations. The study is the result of interviews conducted with 400 human resources executives from 40 countries. It suggests that companies are putting their growth strategies at risk [...]

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Defining Great Leadership

11 October 2007

An interesting post from Tony Mayo, a Lecturer in the Organizational Behavior unit and the Director of the Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School who has spent the past five years, with Nitin Nohria studying great business leadership in the United States. In their research they sought to answer the question…
"What makes a leader great? [...]

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Lessons in leadership development from the worlds best….

8 October 2007

Fortune worked with human resources consultants Hewitt Associates and RBL Group to rank the world’s companies that do the best job of developing strong leaders, their research listed the following top 20 best companies at developing leadership:

General Electric, Fairfield, CT, U.S.
Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.
Nokia, Espoo, Finland
Hindustan Unilever, Mumbai, India
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Critical Leadership Skills

11 September 2006

Research by The Ken Blanchard Companies, investigated the most critical components of effective leadership, this research involved 1,400 leaders, managers and executives.
QUESTION 1: What is the biggest mistake leaders make when working with others?

QUESTION 2: What is the most critical skill a leader can possess when working with others?

QUESTION 3: What are the top [...]

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