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Billons of Dollars Wasted, Part Two - What Happened Next.

Building Personal Strength

As I said in my post on December 9th , I never did write the article exposing the "Dark Secret" of the training and development industry - that organizations world-wide were investing billions of dollars annually in instruction that fails to produce lasting changes in behavior and improved workplace performance. Brinkerhoff and Anne M.

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Coaching for Behavioral Change

Marshall Goldsmith

Our most successful coaching clients are executives who are committed to being great role models for leadership development and for living their company’s values. If the issue is leadership behavior, the coaching clients are given a fair chance and they are motivated to improve, the process described in this article will almost always work.

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The 3 Types of Diversity That Shape Our Identities

Harvard Business Review

Since the 1980s, most global companies have developed diversity and inclusion policies led by human resources. By 2005 Sodexho was widely recognized as a diversity champion. But these groups should always be voluntary and develop at their own pace, without management interference. Managing identities of origin.

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business Review

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

.” There is a virtuous cycle between productivity and people: Higher levels of productivity allow society to reinvest in human capital (most obviously, though not exclusively, via higher wages), and smart investments result in higher labor productivity. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic.

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What Employers Can Do to Accelerate Health Care Reform

Harvard Business Review

I’ve had the opportunity to participate with many large, self-insured employers in three such marketplace collaboratives: one led by Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle in 2005, another led by Intel in Portland, Oregon, in 2009, and the Robert Bree Collaborative , created by the Washington State legislature in 2011. Insight Center.

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How Labor Standards Can Be Good for Growth

Harvard Business Review

Nike is a leading example of how both anti-sweatshop campaigns and labor standards in trade agreements can be good for innovation and growth in developing countries. But in a recent study, my colleagues and I stumbled across evidence that both the choice of venue and the message were surprisingly apt.