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Accelerate Your Growth through Agile HR Practices

HR Digest

The Agile Manifesto written by a collection of 17 bright minds in 2001 , gave rise to a collection of values to guide software development in an agile, adaptive manner. Similar to a team huddle before a rugby match or any other sport, it requires everyone to come together and define each role and goal for the overall team.

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Americans Struggling with Stress and Loneliness

Michael Lee Stallard

To reverse these ominous trends we need to dial back our achieve-aholic tendencies to pursue wealth, power, and fame, and spend more time and energy connecting with others in supportive relationships. When global marketing firm McCann Worldgroup surveyed 1,000 individuals in the U.S. Both are necessary for an organization to thrive.

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Are You Using These 4 Steps For Organizational Success?

Tanveer Naseer

With the month of September now underway, there’s an unmistakable feeling of renewed energy and determination in the air. Instead, these measures are a result of addressing what goals they have for their organization, of what they wanted to create or accomplish that would make them stand out and succeed in their respective fields.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. We’ve also learned that learners don’t commit time and energy to any program, course, or event. 90% of leaders think an engagement strategy is important while only 25% of organizations have one (ACCOR).

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%.

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How Companies Escape the Traps of the Past

Harvard Business Review

The message was intended to inspire new energy in the company at a pivotal time: “While we have seen great success, we are hungry to do more. Former GE boss Jack Welch was a master at using symbolic bets to coach GE to have the culture he wanted to achieve his strategic goals, to be #1 or 2 in every market they were in.

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The Connection Between Employee Trust and Financial Performance

Harvard Business Review

This was the headquarters of Campbell Soup Company when one of us, Doug Conant, took the reins as CEO in 2001. Was this a deliberate attempt to imprison employees and stifle their energy? Doug observed this when he moved into a Vice President of Marketing position at Nabisco in the $3.5 Was this a prison?