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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business Review

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. That makes retaining them very different from retaining someone who wants to scale the corporate hierarchy by managing increasingly larger operations.

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The False Tradeoff in Redesigning Work

Harvard Business Review

tire manufacturer, which implemented a new order fulfillment process in 2005. The vice president of operations said: "It was simply amazing to see how the team worked together to solve those complex issues and learn from each other's creativity. Consider what happened at a major U.S. The wall was filled with their ideas.