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Why Your Employees Count as Much as Your Clients

Strategy Driven

Nothing will drive an employee away or decrease their performance and motivation faster than poor management practices. While management focuses on control, organization, and supervision, leadership is the ability to inspire, motivate, and influence to empower others to create organizational success. The same applies to employees.

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

Strategy Driven

It is also a function of managers to ensure that employees are happy and motivated so that they contribute positively on a long term basis to the organization. Be sure to check on their well-being and to provide positive encouragement and reinforcement as the process continues. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Unlocking Education: The Idaho Opportunity Scholarship

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Launched in 2013, this scholarship program has since made significant strides in promoting post-secondary education in the state. This creates a ripple effect of positive change throughout the state. It was established with the recognition that education is the cornerstone of personal and economic growth.

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Boards Aren’t the Right Way to Monitor Companies

Harvard Business Review

The company provides services in a myriad of industries, such as health care, water treatment, aviation, and financing. Consider that many directors who sit on boards hold senior management positions at other firms, and some sit on the boards of multiple companies.

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How to Talk to Your Kids About Money When You Have a Lot of It

Harvard Business Review

How do I keep them motivated and prevent them from becoming materialistic or entitled? Determining how much to share about your finances with your kids and when to do so can be a tough call. A 2013 Wall Street Journal article by Missy Sullivan references a 2012 study by U.S.

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The Changing Economics of App Development

Harvard Business Review

It’s why brands invest heavily in marketing, pricing strategies, and store positioning to raise awareness, encourage engagement, and drive sales. ” App store research, which I collected in my book, Apponomics , reveals only 5% of apps accounted for 92% of downloads in 2013. million apps as of July 2015.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. Designing a consistently positive, rewarding experience across all those touchpoints takes system-wide thinking and an integrated service-delivery approach.

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