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What is Great Leadership?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Ted Bagley: All organizations worry about leadership, from the mom and pop community businesses to the giant global entities both domestic and international. Good leadership is defined as proper training, rewarding, assisting, coaching and respecting those who “carry the load”.

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5 Ways To Keep Women In Tech

The Horizons Tracker

economy and its continued leadership around the globe. Have measurable targets – Having female role models in senior positions is clearly beneficial in a number of ways, and the authors urge companies to have measurable targets for improving the diversity of their leadership team.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

How do your organization’s strategic and operational goals inform what work roles will be needed in the future? What is the historic attrition and turnover rate and how do these map to the skills that keep you competitive? What are your employees’ retirement plans? Who will do this work?

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How We Closed the Gap Between Men’s and Women’s Retention Rates

Harvard Business Review

As in many fast-paced companies today, consulting staff operate without formal job descriptions or handbooks. So relationships are where employees develop critical skills and leadership capabilities. As with many workplaces, BCG has traditionally operated according to male communication norms. Are you retaining more top talent?

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How the Navy SEALs Train for Leadership Excellence

Harvard Business Review

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. Before we redid the course, SEAL sniper school had an average attrition rate of about 30 percent. That scares me. This was a precarious time.

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How SAP Labs India Became An Innovation Dynamo

Harvard Business Review

SAP's senior management asked Ferose to shore up employee morale at SAP Labs India, where the attrition rate had reached a painful 19% in 2009. He believed that the most disruptive innovations don't occur inside a single domain, but at the intersection of multiple diverse domains (such as the arts and the sciences).

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Workers with Disabilities Solved This Company's Talent Crisis

Harvard Business Review

In return, the company got a workforce of loyal employees, with less attrition and higher productivity compared to other firms. VP of Operations. According to Reddy, the attrition rate of disabled youth is 1% compared to 10%-15% for others. Today, 280 of their 2500 workforce are disabled youth. Productivity is higher.