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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. We, as leaders, still understand little of how to retain essential high performers in turbulent times. Five Trends .

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Multicultural Leadership Starts from Within

Harvard Business Review

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management. But attaining one is far from easy. We also looked at results by industry and region.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. They might be surprised at how certain economic notions have been directly applied in business, with largely positive results. Economists and market design. Here a few notable examples.

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Why Germany Dominates the U.S. in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

An American PhD student in computer science never even thinks about a career in the automobile industry — or, for that matter, other manufacturing-related fields. Bell Labs used to do this in the United States for telecommunications, but Fraunhofer now does this on a much larger scale across Germany’s entire industrial sector.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

Consider the ongoing debates — which are now entering litigation — about the BP oil spill and the three "partners" who had to work together to drill and cap the well (BP, TransOcean, Halliburton); how should the decision have been made among them on whether to push on in the last phase of drilling?

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Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR. If you want to conduct an employee survey, ask business stakeholders about its relevance and how to do it. But it must be HR that decides how things are done, based on the professional knowledge and insights only HR people will have.

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