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

N2Growth Blog

In 2004 the Corporate Executive Board’s research showed an 87% decrease in the likelihood of departure for highly engaged employees. We chase short-term wins. They go after short-term wins and cannot lift their heads high enough to glimpse the future. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons.

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Why Every Startup Should Bootstrap

Harvard Business Review

As financing dries up, entrepreneurs would do well to remember the benefits of bootstrapping. In 2004, I attended my first trade show. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. But building a profitable, sustainable business is still really hard. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust. Set your company up for success.

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Tough Dilemmas for Companies on Campaign Spending

Harvard Business Review

These are some of the most salient issues of campaign finance facing CEOs and boards of directors as the nation heads into what will certainly be a bitter election year, with both houses of Congress and the Presidency up for grabs. Under long-standing policy, the IRS does not disclose the donors to these organizations.

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The Real (and Imagined) Problems with the U.S. Corporate Tax Code

Harvard Business Review

companies don’t pay taxes on debt-financed investments, which amounts to a subsidy. based corporations make up a disproportionately high share of the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world’s most important corporations (in terms of profits, assets, market capitalization, or sales). And in practice, the foreign income of U.S.

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business Review

With this in mind, I’m volunteering to carry out a management concept recall: with 2019 marking the 25th anniversary of the “triple bottom line,” a term I coined in 1994, I propose a strategic recall to do some fine tuning. But success or failure on sustainability goals cannot be measured only in terms of profit and loss.

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