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The Worst CEOs of 2012: What did we Learn?

Great Leadership By Dan

It’s worth taking one last look at 2012?s In case you haven’t seen one yet, here’s a compilation of the 2012 lists: 1. The Bloomberg Businessweek Worst CEOs of 2012. Forbes the Worst CEO Screw-ups of 2012. Herb Greenberg’s Worst CEO of 2012 (CNBC). Valuewalk’s Worst CEOs of 2012. Poor talent management.

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3 Business Reasons for Employee Engagement Program

Chart Your Course

2) Operating margins increase: According to the Towers Watson 2012 Global Workforce Study, companies with the highest sustainable engagement scores had an average one-year operating margin of 27% (vs. 14% for companies with traditional engagement and 10% for those with low engagement).

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Leadership: It’s the Softer Side That Counts

Great Leadership By Dan

I visited one of our large operations. That night as I flew home I was so upset by how these employees had been dismissed that I crafted a “One Company” strategy, which today is the basis for how we operate. When I asked who they were she replied, “Oh, you don’t need to meet them.

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How Leaders Are Creating Engagement In Today’s Workplaces

Tanveer Naseer

This was the focus of HCI’s 2012 Employee Engagement Conference where business leaders from NIKE, Warner Bros. ” – Darcy Antonellis, President of Technical Operations at Warner Bros. Lesson 2: “Be comfortable with discomfort and anxiety. It’s okay to miss the mark sometimes.”

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The Value of Vision Series – Tanvi Gautam

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Not for a moment am I suggesting that we should ignore the strategic, tactical or operational. Tanvi Gautam (Managing Partner, Global People Tree ) helps organizations adopt innovative talent management practices. For the first time ever they were writing a story of their future. Their vision of possibility.

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You Can’t Delegate Talent Management to the HR Department

Harvard Business Review

That’s why many of them, particularly the largest ones, rely on full-time “talent management” professionals, who work in coordination with other parts of HR. These talent management people create processes for assessing leadership capabilities and set the strategy for upgrading leadership talent over time.

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How Leading Companies Build the Workforces They Need to Stay Ahead

Harvard Business Review

When Bain & Company examined the talent management practices of more than 300 large companies worldwide, we discovered that the most productive and best-performing organizations cluster their star talent in a few business-critical roles. Harnessing this data requires new skills and capabilities.

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