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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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As Emerging Markets Slow, Firms Search for “New” BRICs

Harvard Business Review

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

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Why the Print Catalog Is Back in Style

Harvard Business Review

Penney’s recent announcement that it is resurrecting its print catalog reflects a trend of retailers returning to the print medium as an important sales and marketing tool. According to the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), catalog mailings grew in 2013 to 11.9

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5 Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business Review

Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001. Take Dell Technologies, for example. Think of strategy as a portfolio of options, not bonds.

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Why We Build Fiscal Cliffs

Harvard Business Review

After that the Bush administration and a Republican-majority Congress decided in 2001 to effectively set paygo aside. The then-sainted Alan Greenspan had given them ample cover, by expressing concerns that surpluses might eventually kill the bond market. In 2010, Congress voted to extend the 2001 cuts for two years.

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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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