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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

To retain top talent in the future, executives will need to clearly identify, develop, involve, and recognize key people. Provide opportunities for development and involvement. . This gives young leaders fantastic development and gives the firm valuable input on solving real problems. Provide recognition. . Relax the culture.

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Maintaining Your Focus on the Front Lines as Your Company Grows

Harvard Business Review

Proliferating bureaucracies, expanding org charts, increasingly powerful central staffs, competing departmental agendas—all interfere with the focus on the customer and the deep connection with the details of the business that allowed these companies to grow successfully in the first place.

Company 12
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What I Learned from Transforming the U.S. Military’s Approach to Talent

Harvard Business Review

It was clear to me then that the Defense Department would need to keep pace with the dramatic changes — many of them technological — reshaping the economy, the labor market, and human resource management. Developing Talent. Attracting Talent.