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The Positive Runs Out

The Recovering Engineer

During the training class, I made the point that only positive reinforcements encourage people to give high-level, maximum effort. If you stop giving encouragement, praise, and other positive input to people; eventually the positive runs out.&# Me: “Yes, that’s exactly my point.&# Photo credit: [link] / CC BY 2.0

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Diverse Teams Help Organizations Adapt To Change

The Horizons Tracker

Team dynamics The study surveyed over 140,000 alumni from Stanford University, resulting in a dataset of more than 1,000 entrepreneurs who founded ventures across 19 industries from 1960 to 2011, ranging from agriculture to energy and utilities.

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Preview Thursday: Destination Facilitation

Lead Change Blog

Nor is knowledge of different cultures sufficient information to create a positive learning environment for knowledge transfer to occur. He defines CQ as “the capabilIntroduction 11 ity to function effectively in a variety of cultural contexts including national, ethnic, organizational and generational” (Livermore 2011).

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High Morale Doesn’t Guarantee Employee Retention

Chart Your Course

based employees described morale at their organization as “very good” or “good” in a November 2012 Accountemps survey. In a Right Management survey of 760 employees in the U.S. and Canada, however, 86 percent of respondents said they “intend to actively seek a new position.”.

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Appointing Female CEOs Can Cause White Men To Try Less

The Horizons Tracker

Organizations around the world have been striving to make their senior managerial positions more diverse and representative of both their workforce and their customer base. The researchers analyzed the makeup of executive teams in 1,000 large and mid-sized American firms between 2006 and 2011. Firm diversity.

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The Ultimate Leadership Tip (From a Trend Too Compelling to Ignore)

Terry Starbucker

A 2011 report commissioned by the Career Advisory Board and conducted by Harris Interactive, found that the No. A 2011 report commissioned by the Career Advisory Board and conducted by Harris Interactive, found that the No. Workers who find their jobs meaningful are more engaged and less likely to leave their current positions.

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Cutting Costs/Curtailing Services Can Produce Crappy Customer Service

Chart Your Course

According to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive for Careerbuilder.com in 2012, 40 percent of companies said they lost upwards of $25,000 per bad hire in 2011, and 25 percent estimated the cost was more than $50,000. Meanwhile, 69 percent of businesses surveyed said their business had been negatively impacted from a bad hire.

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