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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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Before You Open a Business…

Leading Blog

Others might find that the successful resolution of these conflicts opens them up to new ways of relating to their families and careers. Is your spouse willing to make significant career or personal sacrifices that might be required to support you and the business? Family Questions. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

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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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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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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

People : Recognizes interpersonal difficulties; intuitively understands how others feel; picks up non-verbal cues; empathetic; persuades, teaches, influences. Few CEOs I know have operations-focused thinking styles or backgrounds. But they have very little interest in how to get the ideas put into operation.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

Comments The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises (Larry Prusak, Brook Manville, and Tom Davenport are at work on a book on judgment and how to cultivate it as an organizational, not just individual, strength. His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

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How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation

Harvard Business Review

Business leaders believe a strong organizational culture is critical to success, yet culture tends to feel like some magic force that few know how to control. We’ve found that answering three questions can help transform culture from a mystery to a science: 1) How does culture drive performance? Insight Center.