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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm … on “Good Company”

The Practical Leader

Also forcing companies in the direction of worthiness is a growing global consciousness. ” “… studies find that primary contributors to employee commitment include : management concern for employees and customers. ” If companies want to succeed in this ethical age, they had better live up to those ideals.”

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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business Review

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. Very quickly, common concerns bubbled up. What did we do?

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The Best Companies Invest Aggressively in These 3 Areas

Harvard Business Review

“Talent management is easily over a third of all executive time when you count it all,” one long-standing company employee told us about how the company is run. The company’s success has made it one of the best-performing IPOs in Asia in the last decade. “It is big.”

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You Are Not a Failure

Harvard Business Review

And don't forget the World Economic Forum's posse of Young Global Leaders. I talked recently with David Galenson , an economist at the University of Chicago who began studying prices at art auctions — an exploration that drove him to understand the nature of creativity over the course of one's career. Actually, me neither.)

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Why We Shouldn't Bank on Growth

Harvard Business Review

As a result, we tend to extrapolate prior trends into future estimates in many domains, ranging from career and compensation expectations to global macroeconomic projections. That seems like a good bet; since the IPO, Facebook's share price has fallen meaningfully. A final example comes from the domain of career management.

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Hire a Great Chinese Engineer by Impressing His Girlfriend's Mom

Harvard Business Review

After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO. I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011.

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What African Start-Ups Need to Do to Hire and Keep Great Talent

Harvard Business Review

With limited exit opportunities via initial public offers ( IPOs ) and acquisitions, smart young people understand that stock options rarely bring a big payday. It is a core continuity management strategy in a market scarce on technology talent. Entrepreneurship Talent management Employee retention Africa'