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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

Amidst all the revenue numbers and share valuations that companies wear as a badge of honor, the concept of employee relationship management has emerged as another undeniable sign of a successful organization. Conflict Management Why are workplace conflicts such a common grievance?

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Hogan was a partner at McKinsey & Co. and a development manager at Oracle Corp. She also manages JLL’s corporate offices around the world, with a focus on creating spaces that promote engagement, collaboration, and wellbeing. Prior to joining JLL, Bilbrey was the U.S. CHRO for HSBC.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.

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Why American Management Rules the World

Harvard Business Review

After a decade of painstaking research, we have concluded that American firms are on average the best managed in the world. But while Americans are bad at football (or soccer, as it's known as locally), they are the Brazilians of Management. This has allowed us to create the first global database of management practices.

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Morning Advantage: A Great Lesson from a Young and Reluctant Manager

Harvard Business Review

When Amanda Pouchot was 25, she left her analyst position at McKinsey to co-found Levo League, a startup that provides young women with career advice and resources. But the biggest challenge, she writes at Fortune , was learning how to manage people. Unfortunately, as Pouchet learned, management doesn’t quite work that way.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report , the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 This type of orientation can be incredibly valuable to cultivate for anyone working for multinationals or in other global careers, and can also be used by managers to develop employees. Photo by Christine Roy.

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Is Your Company Ready for the Circular Economy?

Harvard Business Review

She started an eponymous foundation focused on understanding a better way for the economy to manage its resources. We have three billion new middle class consumers coming into the world and there's more and more pressure to find out how to manage these resources. So in 2006, I started talking with people to understand more.

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