This presentation highlights findings from High-Resolution Leadership. Download the full report: http://www.ddiworld.com/hirezleadership High-Resolution Leadership is a collection of findings that reflects how leadership shapes today's business landscape. Through 18 different lenses focused on leadership, we see everything from how leaders impact financial growth and execute economic turnaround to the ways in which they skyrocket rise to the top. As the most powerful synthesis of data of its kind, this landmark report includes 15,000 DDI leadership assessment participants ranging from frontline leaders to the C-suite. Through these insights, you can predict leader success in your own organization and explore the DNA of leadership.

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High-Resolution
Leadership
A Synthesis of 15,000 Assessments
Into How Leaders
Shape the Business Landscape

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High-Resolution Leadership
is a collection of findings that reflect
how leadership shapes today's
business landscape.
Through 18 different lenses on the
implications about leadership, we see
everything from how leaders impact
financial growth to economic
turnaround to their skyrocketing rise
to the top.
This landmark report includes 15,000
DDI leadership assessment
participants ranging from frontline to
the C-suite.
Through these insights, you can
predict leader success in your own
organization and explore the DNA
of leadership.

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The
Money
Skills
Senior Executive Competencies
That Drive Profitable Growth
Leaders with money skills have laser-sharp
business minds and the gift to mobilize & engage
people. @DDIworld #hirezleadership

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Money Skills

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“When an organization cultivates top-
level leaders who combine business
judgment with the ability to execute,
the impact shows up in the form of
financial gains.”
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Leader Skill
Shake-Up
Critical Consequences of the
Shifts Over Time
The turmoil from the global financial crisis
dramatically reshuffled leader skills.
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Over Time Trend Data

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“As businesses have adapted to a
new economic reality, so too have
their leaders, becoming stronger at
doing more with less. However, this
likely has come at the expense of
talent growth and risk taking.”
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Ready
Leaders?
Ready for
What?
How Leadership Readiness
Stacks Up Against Common
Business Contexts
Given the speed of change, executives have
some catching up to do. http://bit.ly/1U4SvC2
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Ready Leaders – Ready For What?

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“Executives are more equipped to focus on
challenges in the here and now, such as im-
proving quality, building relationships, and
focusing on customers and efficiency. They
are far less ready to navigate the ambiguity
that comes with more strategic challenges
like building or reinventing brands, markets,
organizations, and cultures.”
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Industry
Revolution
In Today’s Landscape, Which
Industries Are Most Poised to
Succeed?
One key differentiator among industries is the
degree of VUCA pressures they face.
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Industry

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“Within an industry, use
pervasive skill deficiencies
to identify which growth
targets are most likely to
provide a competitive
advantage over peers.”
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Race to
the Top
In the “Survival of the Fittest,”
How Does Personality Impact
Leadership Transitions?
Leaders face high-risk scenarios that trigger
derailers and cause stressors.
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Race to the Top

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“Notably, Attention Seeking is the only derailer
which increases for senior leaders, as their
confidence helps them pursue and win center
stage. Their risk is in overshadowing those
whose hearts they need the most, in lacking
humility, and ultimately, in compromising trust.”
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Judgment:
The
Personality
Blueprint
What Happens When Leaders
Are Under Pressure
Being argumentative and risk-adverse sabotages
a leader’s decision-making skills.
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Judgment / Personality

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“Leaders with higher
learning orientation are
more likely to embrace
ambiguity, complexity and
paradigm shifts and to
positively engage in both
the practical and
intellectual challenges."
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Execution &
Engagement
Can Leaders be Ambidextrous?
Doing Both Well Is Critical
Senior leaders lose their grip on engagement as
execution grows stronger. http://bit.ly/1YxNdpi
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Execution and Engagement

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Execution and Engagement

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“Few leaders were truly ambidextrous—at
the more senior levels, the majority of
leaders scored higher on execution and
lower on engagement; furthermore,
balance almost disappears.”
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Is Empathy
Boss?
The Science Behind Soft Skills—
What Really Drives Performance
Only 40% of the frontline leaders we assessed
were proficient or strong in empathy.
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Empathy

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“Overwhelmingly, empathy
tops the list as the most
critical driver of overall
performance. It also
consistently relates to
higher performance in each
of the four leadership
domains.”
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EQ vs IQ
The Surprising Skills Where Each
Matters Most
A larger % of leadership failures may be attributed
to insensitivity than stupidity. http://bit.ly/1U4W1fG
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Predicting Leader Skills – IQ vs EQ

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“If you want to win someone over, a business case
and strong rationale may be more critical than
interpersonal sensitivity and skills. On the other
hand, once you’ve influenced someone to take a
particular direction, EQ will play a far stronger role
in its execution due to the necessity of getting
everyone marching in the same direction.”
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China:
Looking to
the Next
Horizon
Are Chinese Leaders Wired for
New Futures?
For Chinese leaders, blind spots can limit cross-
cultural engagement and partnerships.
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How Chinese Leaders Are Hard Wired for
the Future

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“Emerging Chinese mid-level and operational
leaders—the next generation of senior
leaders—exhibit personality profiles that
differ from incumbent executives. This
represents, in part, the natural ascension of
leaders with facilitating traits, but, in some
areas there are consequential differences.”
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The Paradox
of India
Rapid Growth but Fighting Hard
to Win
Indian leaders: build relationship-rich cultures
where creativity thrives & talent stays.
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Personality Attributes in India

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“For Indian leaders, boldness is a dominant
and overarching theme – they are more
ambitious, analytically curious, and
competitive than global peers. These
attributes fuel envisioning of new business
possibilities, but can manifest as volatility
and low interpersonal sensitivity.”
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Is Europe
Meeting Its
Potential?
In Post-Crisis Economic
Recovery, Are European Leaders
Stepping Up?
European leaders are relatively predisposed
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Personality Tendencies in Europe

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“While European leaders show strong
strategic flexibility in the face of shifting
dynamics, this advantageous style is
countered by a less thoughtful and planful
execution approach. Their risk, then, lies in
being adept in the realm of strategic ideas
compared to global peers but unable to
translate these concepts effectively or
quickly into execution.”
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The
Experience
Effect
Does Tenure as a Manager Grow
or Slow Leaders?
Does experience translate into leader strength?
How does it vary across leadership skills?
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Growth Rates of Skills Based
on Experience

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“We found two skills that even long-tenured
executives rarely master: coaching and selling the
vision. These skills often must be relearned with
each new group of employees that needs to be
developed and for each new strategy requiring a
leader to chart a compelling course.”
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Management Experience
Skills by Years Needed to Become an Expert

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The CEO
Profile
Exclusive Characteristics of
Succession Finalists
CEOs: intensely competitive, confident,
emotionally resilient, and crave the spotlight.
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CEO Profile
The CEO profile using 243 CEO candidate finalists from 48 organizations.

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CEO Profile

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“This is about what CEO candidates
do to excel, where they struggle and
how they are wired. For example,
they are “creative or pragmatic (but
rarely both)—Half of CEO candidates
are either conceptual strategists or
practical, no-nonsense operators.
Only 8 percent balance both.”
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Not Merely
a Matter of
Degree
How Education Both Informs and
Misleads About Leader Skills
Business majors outperformed other degrees
on 5 of 8 leadership skill areas.
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Education

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“While stereotypes abound about certain degree
paths, research exploring how degrees translate
into rigorously assessed leaders skills is limited.
We answer two questions about the educational
background of leaders: How do skill profiles vary
by educational degree? What skill advantages do
MBA graduates exhibit?”
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Education

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The Gender
Divide
Redefined
Some Surprising Differences, But
Fewer Than You Think
Men are far more impulsive than women, who
consider more consequences of action.
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Gender

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“Why are women unable to rise
as frequently as men? And why
does a male-female wage gap still
exist across a wide range of jobs
including managerial positions?
We have found, these conditions
do not stem from their
competence to lead.”
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Dys-
FUNCTION-al
Skill Gaps
The Risky Reality of Overlooking
Undiscovered Talent
Your greatest leadership talent may be hiding in
unlikely roles in your org. Look deeper.
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Functions Across Leader Skills

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“For the core business skills of financial
acumen and business savvy, leaders in Finance
and Marketing/Advertising led all functions,
while Engineering, Operations, and HR
comparatively fell short.”
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The HR
Report Card
What Does HR See When They
Hold Up the Mirror?
When compared to leaders from other functions,
where do HR leaders stumble—and succeed?
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HR Functionality

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“Perhaps the most important consequence of HR’s
profile is its underrepresentation in leader candidate
pools. HR leaders are increasingly rare among those
being considered for higher-level roles. HR leaders
who are being considered have a distinct profile from
those who are not.”
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