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Why the Best Internal Candidate Might Be from an Unlikely Part of the Company

Harvard Business Review

Both companies named leaders from completely different parts of the business as their current heads of People — Apple’s Deidre O’Brien came from Worldwide Sales and Operations and Microsoft’s Kathleen Hogan came from Worldwide Services at Microsoft. Greater diversity of perspectives. Improved retention of top talent.

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Design Your Employee Experience as Thoughtfully as You Design Your Customer Experience

Harvard Business Review

In its 2016 Employee Engagement Benchmark Study, the firm showed that companies that excel at customer experience have one-and-a-half times as many engaged employees as customer experience laggards do. Improving customer experience is often a top business priority, but what about employee experience?

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Inequality Isn’t Just Due to Market Forces — It’s Caused by Decisions the Boss Makes, Too

Harvard Business Review

In aggregate, such dynamics would operate in a similar manner as unions, systematically raising the wages for low and middle earners relative to high-earners, such that the wage gaps between them are narrowed, thereby lowering wage inequality. There was also variation in whether these capital investments led to workforce reductions.

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Seven Lessons American Manufacturing’s Decline Can Teach Any Company

Strategy Driven

How did the most motivated, inspired, and productive workforce on the planet end up caring more about their bowling scores than their production numbers? A culture by design has a bedrock of carefully selected company-wide values that motivates employees, delights customers, serves their communities and sparks innovation and creativity.

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INTERVIEW: Philip Morris International’s Charles Bendotti on Emerging Contemporary Workplace Culture

HR Digest

How do you keep the people at PMI motivated for change? That’s the kind of culture that drives employee engagement and motivation. Philip Morris International Operations Center Lausanne, Switzerland. I believe that our central purpose is the greatest motivator we have. And it’s a key focus for us.

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How Vineyard Vines Uses Analytics to Win Over Customers

Harvard Business Review

When brothers Shep and Ian Murray cut their ties with Corporate America to start a little company on Martha’s Vineyard in 1998, their motivation was clear : “We’re making neck ties so we don’t have to wear them.” HBR Staff/Daniel Sambraus/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Chief Leadership Officer: Disrupting the CEO Status Quo

Lead Change Blog

Unfortunately, her title is a strategic, operational, financial, and cultural derailing eventuality to the intended track of her purpose, vision and values. The CEO user base is diverse, yet it can be compared to an almost 100% installed “operating” system matched with immeasurably supportive “hardware.”. Why shouldn’t she be a CEO?

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