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Leading with Trust

Great Leadership By Dan

My team spent a decade running experiments that measured brain activity while people worked to find out why some teams are productive and others engage in "presenteeism." One of the eight foundations of trust is a set of policies I call "Invest." Our work also uncovered the eight building blocks of trust.

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Fight the Nine Symptoms of Corporate Decline

Harvard Business Review

What's going on inside becomes more important than any external goal. You might not see absenteeism, but there is "presenteeism," which means the body is there but the mind is absent. Policies and processes are perceived to be ingrained and inevitable, shutting off new ideas. Rifts widen and inequities grow. Raise aspirations.

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Saudi Arabia’s Labor Market Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Reform in those areas will prove to be a key factor in whether Saudi Arabia can achieve its long-term economic goals. Presenteeism in offices often is used as a critical measure of effort, and hence value to an organization, in place of output, qualification, or skill. Education is the starting point. How likely is change?