Leadersnips by Business Strategy Review
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The document discusses job movement dynamics, revealing that 40% of job moves are promotions and 20% are downward moves. It highlights leadership development challenges, noting that nearly 60% of companies experience talent shortages negatively impacting performance, and only 12.5% of FTSE-100 directors are women. Additionally, it compares the representation of women in parliaments across various countries, emphasizing the progress made in places like Rwanda and Sweden.
Leadersnips by Business Strategy Review
- 1. 40% of job moves can be interpreted as a promotion, the same number are a move laterally and 20% are a move downwards. Monika Hamori, IE Business School jobmovesleadershipwisdom In 2009 US companies spent $12 billion on leadership development. Sue Ashford and Scott DeRue, http://blogs.hbr.org leadershipdevelopment Researchers at the UK’s Reading University are examining the brains of business, military and other leaders to better understand what makes them effective leaders. www.bbc.co.uk Brainsofbusiness movedownwards20% promotion40% movelaterally40% leadersnips Rarely has so much ink and wisdom been dedicated to such an abstract and mercurial science. We present a choice sample from the deluge. “When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happens naturally.” Lao-Tzu, Chinese philosopher 18 BUSINESS STRATEGY REVIEW ISSUE 2– 2011 LEADERSHIP REPORT
- 2. 64% of executives who left a company on Fortune’s Most Admired Companies ranking left for a company not on the ranking. Monika Hamori, IE Business School Only 12.5% of the directors of FTSE-100 companies are women. www.ibtimes.com DirectorsofFTSE-100 UK22% GermanY33% holland42% Rwanda56% Sweden46% The 2010 election meant that 22% of UK MPs are women. In the German Bundestag it is 33%; in the Dutch parliament, 42%; the Rwandan parliament, 56%; and the Swedish, 46%. www.guardian.co.uk WomanMPs executivedecisions “To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.” Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet leadershipwisdom Nearly 60% of companies face leadership talent shortages which impede performance. Sue Ashford and Scott DeRue, http://blogs.hbr.org talentshortages talentshortages60% women12.5% companyleavers64% leadersNIPS 19www.london.edu/bsr BUSINESS STRATEGY REVIEW