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Preview Thursday: Developing a Positive Culture Where People and Performance Thrive

Lead Change Blog

Let’s see why a positive culture is vital to thriving organizations. Why is positivity important for organizations? A positive climate at work will “broaden and build” your organization because it makes people more creative, resilient, and innovative. How does your organization think and act?

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How to Discover Your Organization’s Deep Purpose

Skip Prichard

They make sure to embed their purpose in the very operating system of their organizations. Deep purpose leaders understand that this way of operating will inevitably lead to short-term trade-offs among stakeholders, including customers, employees, suppliers, investors and society at large. ” -Ranjay Gulati.

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How Employees Respond When Activist Investors Get Involved

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, they may worry about the interference into their work from the activists, especially as the power structure in many organizations may limit their ability to fight back. The hypothesis was tested using data collected on American companies between 2004 and 2015. Talent loss.

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Lead Change like a Slinky®

Lead Change Blog

In fact, much of my insight came from another toy-based book called Change is Like a Slinky: 30 Strategies for Promoting and Surviving Change in Your Organization by leadership expert, Dr. Hans Finzel. Change is Like a Slinky: 30 Strategies for Promoting and Surviving Change in Your Organization (2004) by Hans Finzel.

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Getting Women Onto Compensation Committees Helps To Reduce Gender Bias

The Horizons Tracker

A common argument behind the gender pay gap is that too few women operate on compensation committees, which results in women persistently being underpaid even if they do break the glass ceiling and make it to the top of our organizations. This line of reasoning is known as the deterministic fallacy.”. Challenging bias.

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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

The Horizons Tracker

Weak management Bloom’s World Management Survey was established in 2004 to measure management practices across hundreds of medium-sized firms in the likes of the U.K., It’s less common for poor management to be targeted to explain lackluster productivity, but research from Stanford’s Nick Bloom suggests that is a mistake.

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Investing In People Builds Resilience Against The Covid Recession

The Horizons Tracker

Pleasingly, for those of us who have long been advocating greater employer investment in the workforce, new research from Warwick Business School suggests that those organizations that have done this are likely to be buffered from the worst of the Covid recession. Building the contract. Developing the workforce.