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Does Employee Satisfaction Improve Company Value? It Depends…
Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania London Business School Warwick University Business School
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When the most important asset of a company is human capital, attracting and retaining high-quality, motivated employees is the key to sustainable competitive advantage. High employee satisfaction makes the company…
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Younger Generations Determined but Concerned about Leadership
Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: Vlerick Business School
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As the younger generation of employees move into their first leadership positions, they will naturally be anxious, as any new leader would be, about the responsibilities, pressures, and risks that…
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The World Needs Mining, but Mining Must Change
Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: Kellogg School of Management
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Mined materials are in many if not most of the products we buy — from the obvious such as jewellery to the not so-obvious, such as the number of mined…
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Does Work/Life Balance Help or Hurt Productivity?
Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Munich School of Management London School of Economics
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Work-life balance issues bring out the optimist in some, the pessimist in others. For pessimists, the work-life balance concerns of employees will be undermined when a firm faces increased competition…
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Harness Big Data Using Visualisation Software Tools
Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: NUS Business School
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The amount of data we generate today boggles the mind. As much as 90% of all data in the world today was created in the past 2 years, writes Keith…
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How Neuroscience Can Aid Collaborative Leadership
Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: NeuroLeadership Institute
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The SCARF® model, developed by neuroscientist David Rock, enables ‘change agents’ to exhibit more adaptive behaviours based on how mental experiences occur over time, thus offering to improve people’s capacity…
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Using Values-Based Leadership to Drive Performance
Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: The Barrett Values Centre
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Richard Barrett’s Seven Levels of Consciousness model, founded on the principles of values-based leadership, is a guide to achieving exceptional performance in organizations. Barrett’s framework based on his extensive research…
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Remote Working Vs Office Working: Why Office is Best
Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: NUS Business School
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Should companies allow employees to work from home, some or all of the time? After all, with the communication possibilities of the digital age — from submitting materials through email…
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How Leaders Emerge in Online Communities
Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: HEC Paris McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management University of Alabama at Birmingham Collat School of Business
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Online communities can be the source of staggering feats of pooled knowledge creation, with volunteers from around the world combining their expertise. Think of Wikipedia, or of Linux, or even…
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