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Preview Thursday: Developing a Positive Culture Where People and Performance Thrive

Lead Change Blog

A positive climate at work will “broaden and build” your organization because it makes people more creative, resilient, and innovative. Fortunately, the effect can also be reversed as research shows that working in the vicinity of a positive leader, makes you positive (Goleman, Biyatzis, McKee, 2004).

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Employee Engagement Articles

Chart Your Course

The Innovation Catalysts Harvard Business Review, June 2011. Economical Employee Engagement Human Resource Executive Online, January 2011. The Things They Do For Love Harvard Business Review, 2004. At Best Places to Work: Trust, Pride & Camaraderie Overshadow Pay USA Today, October 2011.

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Two Team Building & Leadership Success Stories

Mike Cardus

I consulted and led a 6 month coaching and training process with the Executive Vice President of Human Resources and 14 of the Associate Vice Presidents. Since 2004 I have developed a focused expertise on team building , leadership and organizational change issues, working with a variety of businesses and organizations.

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The Perfect Brand Slogan | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

We bring good things to life lasted from 1981 until 2004 with a changing of GE’s executive guard. Jack Welch’s replacement wanted ‘Innovation at Work’ — not bad for culture and corporate morale, but in my view, short on consumer relativity. Human Resources. But the slogan’s a winner. Search My Site.

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Investing In People Builds Resilience Against The Covid Recession

The Horizons Tracker

In total, 989 workplaces were included in both the 2004 and 2011 surveys, allowing the researchers to compare employment relations in these firms alongside their ability to weather what was the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle. Thanks to Coke’s global reach, brand power, bottling network, and single-minded focus, I’m betting on Coca-Cola sustaining this competitive advantage. In-N-Out Burger.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.