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Futren’s Strategies for Employee Retention

Chart Your Course

Futren Corporation is a private-club management and operations company with around 200 employees, based in Marietta, Ga. Club employees also serve on the boards of several local charitable organizations and committees. One small business in Georgia continues to overcome these hurdles.

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Chart Your Course - Untitled Article

Chart Your Course

Futren Corporation is a private-club management and operations company with around 200 employees, based in Marietta, Ga. Club employees also serve on the boards of several local charitable organizations and committees. One small business in Georgia continues to overcome these hurdles.

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Case Study: Can an Airline Cut “Turn Times” Without Adding Staff?

Harvard Business Review

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. But Ken knew he couldn’t just go to the executive committee asking for more money to staff up.

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How to Develop Empathy for Someone Who Annoys You

Harvard Business Review

Ask yourself: “What motivates this person? Case Study #1: Be kind and be curious about your colleague’s perspective. Years ago, when she was an attorney in Boston, Gloria chaired a committee in charge of building the Massachusetts Convention Center, an $800 million construction project along the waterfront.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. And he thought independence was a great motivator. Vera’s Perspective.

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When to Reward Employees with More Responsibility and Money

Harvard Business Review

Many organizations lose some of their best operational people because of creating single pathways to organizational success," says David. Providing more responsibility without a corresponding change in title or raise can sap motivation. Remember, there are other ways to motivate. Yet, these are not areas of genius for all.

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Three Diversity "Best Practices" That Hurt Women

Harvard Business Review

This is not the best motivator of men that I know. Is having 80% women in HR and support functions and 80% of men in operational roles what you are after? Our annual Global Gender balance Scorecard shows that 63% of the women sitting on Executive Committees of the top 100 US companies are in support functions, not P&L roles.