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Six Resolutions for a Winning Corporate Culture

Chart Your Course

Sincere leaders who are transparent about their decisions, upbeat but honest about the company’s future, and show a genuine interest in their workers create an environment that fosters loyalty, creativity and productivity. Establish trust. Employees are happier when they have control over their work and are not micromanaged.

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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked. They will seek out companies providing opportunities to learn new skills, develop new products, and even try new jobs. Human Resources'

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The Ripple Effect of Zappos’ Self-Management System

HR Digest

Under the company’s self-managed environment Zapponians know what is expected of them and continue to evolve and innovate in order to achieve the desired outcome. The HR Digest: What are the people management and workforce empowerment practices at Zappos to ensure employee happiness, engagement, and productivity?

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach. One large consulting and accounting firm recently embarked on an innovative program to identify and cultivate high-potential leaders.

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Leadership Lessons from Outward Bound

Skip Prichard

Regardless of the focus of the endeavor or the product or service of an organization, Expeditionary Leaders like Arthur know that they are ultimately responsible for the well-being of other people—those they lead, those they encounter—and for the web of relationships that flow from their center. .” ” -Warren Bennis. .

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Why Great Brands Lose Their Way

In the CEO Afterlife

The conversation in the world of branding is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. Wouldn’t you expect more innovation? This company lost $5 billion in 2012 and hasn’t made a profit since 2008. This company lost $5 billion in 2012 and hasn’t made a profit since 2008.

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Change Your Company with Better HR Analytics

Harvard Business Review

While you would expect online giants like Amazon and companies like Netflix to be early innovators in the use of data to recommend products or movies, you only care about the answer to one question: what does big data mean for the everyday employee and how can regular businesses extract real value from it? Human resources'