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Raising Pay Can Help Organizations Overcome The Talent Shortage

The Horizons Tracker

Ton, who is also the president of the Good Jobs Institute , argues that when employees are viewed purely as a cost, companies can quickly descend into a vicious cycle that sees employees treated poorly, which leads to high attrition rates, which makes it harder for those who remain, and so on.

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Do You Speak the Language of Performance Driven Execution?

N2Growth Blog

If you are responsible for leading teams, how can you be sure that the work being done throughout the day will innovatively increase impact and productivity to make tomorrow a better place? Distinctio: Accept a New Way to Play in the Leadership and Innovation Sandbox – Differentiation. . “Skipper” Pitts.

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How Employees Respond When Activist Investors Get Involved

The Horizons Tracker

Interestingly, firms targeted by more militant hedge funds didn’t appear to have higher rates of attrition than those targeted by less militant investors. What’s more, these firms also suffered commercially, with fewer performance boosts achieved by any of the changes demanded by the investors.

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The Disconnect that Keeps Your Company from Performing at its Peak

Strategy Driven

Typically, Finance, Marketing, and Operations all have input, direct or indirect, on the creation and revision of the strategic plan. But that familiarity carries a steep cost: slow growth, missed targets, attrition, and unfulfilled potential. I call this obstacle The Disconnect. Sales often have no such contribution.

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Connecting with Abrasive Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Meanwhile, their behavior has consequences: - Low employee morale, retaliation, passive aggression, attrition. Mistakes, loss of creativity and innovation. More than a decade ago, I learned a set of simple principles that describe how the human operating system works, what’s behind our experience of life in the moment.

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How Humble Leadership Really Works

Harvard Business Review

And, depot managers learned that some of the so-called “mistakes” that drivers were making were actually innovations they had created to streamline processes and still deliver everything on time. These innovations helped the company deliver better customer service. Other employee innovation ideas were larger.

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Engaging Shoppers with Intelligent Stores

Harvard Business Review

Some retailers are responding with clever innovations. Research has linked high associate attrition with a poor technology environment. Increasingly, consumers on the floor know more than the sales staff about the store's products and price points — and competing offers. That is a battle most retailers will lose.

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