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STUDY: Less Negative Spillover of Paid Parental Leave than Hyped

HR Digest

Most importantly, the study says that there are no measurable effects of paid parental leave on a company’s profit and viability in the long term. The data was collected from 2001 to 2013. The study mainly looked at the effect of paternal paid leaves on small businesses verses in companies where no such leaves were taken.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x We chase short-term wins. They go after short-term wins and cannot lift their heads high enough to glimpse the future.

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Successful organizations know what skills are required for a leader to be effective for the organization to meet its long term strategic goals and grow and prosper. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization. Influencing skills. Collaborative decision making and problem solving.

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business Review

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. in 2013 to 3.7 So, during GE’s long and steep decline, where was the company’s board of directors?

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

And as you can see in the chart below, the long-term trend in the percentage of workers who are self-employed actually appears to be downward: But isn’t this the age of Free Agent Nation , as Dan Pink declared back in 1997 ? million in 2013, up from 16 million two years before. ” That gets the total to an estimated 17.7

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

Here are just three examples: In his original 1997 letter Bezos states, “We will share our strategic thought processes with you when we make bold choices (to the extent competitive pressures allow), so that you may evaluate for yourselves whether we are making rational long-term leadership investments.” Jeff Bezos.

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Why the Print Catalog Is Back in Style

Harvard Business Review

According to the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), catalog mailings grew in 2013 to 11.9 According to the DMA, in 2012 mailings dropped to its lowest level since it began collecting annual data in 2001. The recent resurgence in the popularity of catalogs raises questions about their value and long-term viability.

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