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SkillSoft to Film Videos on Employee Engagement, Strategic Alignment

Michael Lee Stallard

The Conference Board released a report in January 2010 saying its research showed employee engagement is at its lowest point since the organization began surveying. Organizations today are in desperate need of improving employee engagement and strategic alignment. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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The September 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale

Great Leadership By Dan

Check out the cute Pixar film at the end. presents 10 Management Lessons from Harry Potter posted at Lead Change Group Blog , saying, "Post by Leigh Steere of Managing People Better about the lessons she learned from the Harry Potter series." Nick McCormick presents Managers, Who Would You Re-hire? Mike Henry Sr.

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The Joy of Facts

Next Level Blog

Reid travelled around the world twice – once on his publisher’s dime and again to film a documentary for PBS – to learn about how health care is delivered in different countries. While that may work okay in one's philosophy class (not really), it completely falls apart as a basis for shared community life (government, ethics, etc).

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How Managers Can Avoid Playing Favorites

Harvard Business Review

But when you’re the boss, treating direct reports differently — and especially playing favorites — is unwise and unfair. But when managers favor one employee over another, morale and productivity suffer. What Great Managers Do. Exceptional managers find and capitalize on their employees' unique strengths.

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“A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job

Harvard Business Review

I located a great source: A weekly meeting held by an organization for white-collar job seekers in the Bay Area, a portion of which was dedicated to successful job seekers telling their stories — on film. Of the 141 people who said they thought networking had helped them, only 17% reported that a weak tie did the trick.

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Theranos and the Dark Side of Storytelling

Harvard Business Review

Following a long stretch of fawning coverage from business and technology journalists, The Wall Street Journal reported in October 2015 that the company’s flagship blood-testing technology was a near-total failure. And it’s also the reason that academic journals exclude storytelling technique from scientific reports.

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Sex, Power, and the Systems That Enable Men Like Harvey Weinstein

Harvard Business Review

And they behave in an impulsive fashion — they violate the ethics of the workplace. Stockbyte/Getty Images. In one experiment, participants in power took candy from children without blinking an eye. The challenge, then, is to change social systems in which the abuses of power arise and continue unchecked.

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