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Retain Talent Through a Concrete Corporate Culture

Coaching Tip

According to a recent survey by the National Association for Business Economics , the employment outlook by companies in the United States has soared to a 12-year high. . Moreover, attracting and retaining talent is “at the top of the agenda” for CEOs, according to the 2011 Annual Global CEO Survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

Your federal small business loan can fund a call center and answering service , linking local talent to employers nationwide. Take advantage of the military spending with a civil construction company. Help the city’s manufacturing workforce transition to the information economy with a placement service.

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What Tomorrow's Leaders Are Learning in Africa Right Now

Harvard Business Review

August 2011 HBR. We also find regional knowledge out of fashion in business schools, a critical shortcoming that the Tony Elumelu Foundation is addressing in a new program called the African Markets Internship Programme (AMIP), which began just last month.

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Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform

Harvard Business Review

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Companies such as Ford, Toyota, and Caterpillar have invested heavily as well.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Companies that claim to be “transforming” seem to be everywhere. Before describing those, let’s look at how we identified the exceptional firms that rose to the top of our ranking, a group we call the Transformation 10. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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The Powerful Way Onboarding Can Encourage Authenticity

Harvard Business Review

When a new employee is hired under this typical scenario and shows up the first day, the company tells her what work needs to be done and shows her how to act. Insight Center. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. Newcomers were given a badge and fleece sweatshirt with the company’s name on both of them.

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The Productivity Payoff From the Corporate Lattice

Harvard Business Review

For instance, 82 percent of the companies on Fortune's 2011 100 Best Companies to Work For list offer telecommuting options. Frontier Communications, for example, has found that work-at-home agents are 25% more productive and have double the retention rate of work-in-the-call-center agents.