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What's Servant Leadership?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Studies reveal that a servant leadership style improves employee productivity and creativity. Employees are more likely to provide constructive criticism and engage in productive conflict without fear of exclusion or retaliation. Productivity, wages, and intrinsic motivations. The future of leadership in learning organizations.

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Keynes Is Dead, Abenomics Fizzles, US Fails to Reach Escape Velocity, Stimulus Fatigue

MishTalk

Holding down costs of non-tradeables like housing, health care and education is the key to economic competitiveness and sustainable growth. The 2008 crisis prompted a pause. In the decade before the 2008 financial crisis, trade was driving growth. It increases growth potential through higher efficiency.

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Transforming Today’s Bad Jobs into Tomorrow’s Good Jobs

Harvard Business

Companies that offer good jobs today — with decent wages, predictable schedules, and opportunities for success and growth — do so by combining investment in people with operational choices that increase their employees’ productivity and contributions. We call this approach the Good Jobs Strategy.

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Consultant Ninja: Health Care is Not a Right: Management.

Consultant Ninja

I do not necessarily agree with nationalized healthcare, but would assert that productive discussion of the issue must be based on specific arguments about what is effective, fair, and affordable for the nation. This process restricts efficient uses of health services and buries cost. Productivity. (6). Consulting. (88).

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Business Does Not Need the Humanities — But Humans Do

Harvard Business

Many a tech titan, critics contend, would have been helped by an extra humanities class, say, or social science course : those staples of liberal arts education meant to prepare future leaders to wrestle with the dilemmas and complexities of human lives and societies. You must be efficient and consistent. You must take sides.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

A global survey of over 5000 CEOs revealed that greater than 60 percent of organizations anticipate introducing new products or services to fuel their growth. Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009).

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Corporate Inequality Is the Defining Fact of Business Today

Harvard Business

The result, at least in developed nations, is a highly unequal corporate landscape, where some firms are incredibly productive and the amount of money a person makes is tied to the company they work for, not just the job that they do. And this growing productivity gap shows up within industries, not just between them.