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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. Employees are wondering, “If the company is willing to dump me at its convenience, why shouldn’t I dump the company at my convenience?”

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Skills Shortages Worsening

Chart Your Course

With the forecasts of doom and gloom in so many places around the world, we would expect companies to delay hiring new employees and that the skills shortages might be lessening. The most active hiring will be in the materials and IT & telecommunications sectors. © Copyright 1998-2013 by The Herman Group of Companies, Inc.,

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Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

Its the managers responsibility to lead their employees, manage performance, and provide guidance. Yes, managers often interview job candidates or identify the most talented employees as part of a talent management program. Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR.

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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

Men highly self-rate their own leadership skills and their ability to tackle management and business challenges. Industries with a moderate representation of women leaders include: food, banking and telecommunications services. Give managers who fail to develop their leaders a negative consequence. Goldman Sachs.

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Pursuing Entrepreneurial Companies: Grad Advice | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

Pursuing Entrepreneurial Companies: Grad Advice. by John • April 11, 2011 • Human Resources , Strategy • 0 Comments. When a company has clout, there isn’t much incentive to re-invent. The leaders of these companies aren’t ‘managing the store’; they’re building new stores. In the CEO Afterlife.

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Stop Waiting for Governments to Close the Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

And this will only happen if we align the interests of workers and investors such that companies focus on worker well-being to deliver better financial results. Companies have a role to play in addressing this challenge, and doing so needn’t come at the expense of performance. America needs to become a great place to work again.

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