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Effective Handling of Employee Personal Problems is Critical to Maintaining Workforce Efficiency

Strategy Driven

As a leader and manager, it is quite likely at some point during your career that you will encounter employees with personal problems. You want to ensure they are on the right path to success and advancement. These can include tardiness, absenteeism , emotional outbursts, or outward stress and anxiety among many others.

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What Corporations Can Learn From a 4,000-Person Parade Extravaganza (Seriously)

Harvard Business Review

Leaders have a large degree of autonomy and consequently develop the sense of ownership crucial to success. All this in Brazil, a country where women are known to have much slower and shorter corporate careers than men, and where black directors are vanishingly rare in larger corporations. Rank is matched with empowerment.

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Managing Vacations When Your Team Is Global

Harvard Business Review

Less driven by individual accomplishment and success for its own sake, few are impressed by martyrs who put in long hours at the office. In the 2013 study No Vacation Nation , the Center for Economic and Policy Research examined paid leave and paid holidays in OECD nations. As a result, there is less pressure to do so.