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

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). In 2004 the Corporate Executive Board’s research showed an 87% decrease in the likelihood of departure for highly engaged employees. The problem is leadership on autopilot.

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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

The Horizons Tracker

Weak management Bloom’s World Management Survey was established in 2004 to measure management practices across hundreds of medium-sized firms in the likes of the U.K., It is at least positive, however, that attention is being focused on the important role management has to play in improving national productivity. and France.

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Social Networking for Business: Does it Really Work? :: Women on.

Women on Business

How, then, do I maintain a robust network of people who continue to like and care for me, as well as a list of referrers who literally feed me by sending me leads, partnership opportunities, writing positions, and paid gigs? I keep on message, I network, and I make my network work , for me and for others.

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Leadership Teams: Why Two Are Better Than One

Harvard Business Review

The concept of "two-in-a-box" leadership has been examined extensively over the past few years. One of the most thorough discussions is in the HBR article The Leadership Team: Complementary Strengths or Conflicting Agendas. We create leadership teams not only for our top jobs, but for every management position in the company.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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How to Really Listen to Your Employees

Harvard Business Review

” Christine Riordan, a leadership coach and president-elect of Adelphi University, agrees: “To be able to motivate and inspire others, you need to learn how to listen in both individual meetings and at the group level.” How to master this essential leadership skill. Further Reading. The Discipline of Listening.

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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. You and your board are in the position to decide whether that happens or not.