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The Research On ROI Of Employee Engagement

Six Disciplines

The 2009/2010 Towers Watson (formerly Watson Wyatt) communications study found that companies that are highly effective communicators had 47% higher total returns to shareholders over the last five years compared with firms that are the least effective communicators.

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Rethinking Digital Transformation: An Interview With Kathleen Wilson-Thompson

HR Digest

The purpose of servant leadership, according to Kathleen Wilson-Thompson, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Human Resources Officer at Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., Actually, it’s important to note that most of our team members globally work in pharmacies, stores, distribution centers….providing is to empower people.

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Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada :: Women on Business

Women on Business

However, all hope is not lost for Canadian businesswomen. In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1% of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% That means some of those women could be on the right path to move into corporate executive positions in the future.

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EBay CEO Meg Whitman to Retire :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Just six months later, eBay went public with its initial public offering, and by 2005, eBay was on fire with nothing stopping it. When Meg Whitman joined eBay in 1998, no one knew how successful the company would become. Whitman took the helm when eBay employed only a few dozen people.

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Quotes to Note from Superabundance

The Practical Leader

percent, we can say that global resource abundance (i.e., What matters, then, is not the physical limits of our planet, but human freedom to experiment and reimagine the use of resources that we have. Given that personal resource abundance increased by 303 percent and the world’s population increased by 75.8

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Ten Years On: Semi-random Reflections from a Decade of Coaching

Next Level Blog

In the past ten years, we've had two major wars and a near meltdown of the global economy.    On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.  Posted by: Nancy Collamer | December 01, 2010 at 06:35 PM Many thanks Nancy. Leadership is more complicated. 

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New Year Entertainment: Predictions, Forecasts, and Projections

The Practical Leader

This time of year, we’re bombarded with glib and confident “experts” forecasting everything from the economy, to global warming, to financial markets, social trends, weather, and lots more. Experts forecasted in 2000 that 30 gigawatts of electricity would be generated worldwide through wind power by 2010.

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