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Playing the Long Game: The Employee Retention Process in HR

HR Digest

The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030. Amidst their country’s tech talent shortage, HP Indonesia is doing its best to focus on its employee retention instead of acquisition efforts, according to Human Resources Online.

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PEAK Leadership

CO2

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. She was working with a junior teammate on a months-long project, for whom she was responsible for developing and improving how he showed up in calls with other stakeholders.

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PEAK Leadership

CO2

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. She was working with a junior teammate on a months-long project, for whom she was responsible for developing and improving how he showed up in calls with other stakeholders.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business Review

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. The primary focus was on fixing the acquired firm through financial restructuring, dramatic cost cutting, and strategic slashing. a condo development, apartment building, or golf course).

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White Americans’ Mortality Rates Are Rising. Something Similar Happened in Russia from 1965 to 2005

Harvard Business Review

In 2015 Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton published a stunning finding : The mortality rates for working-age white Americans have been rising since 1999. For mortality rates to rise instead of fall is extremely rare in developed countries except as a result of war or pandemic.

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Good News, Bad News: An HBR Management Puzzle on Innovation Execution

Harvard Business Review

The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. The customer needs the project completed by mid-2015. Compared to our original plan, a larger part of the development phase will now be executed in 2013.

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An Early Warning System for Your Team’s Stress Level

Harvard Business Review

But with intense media and regulatory focus on oil prices adding complexity to a current restructuring in the organization, Michel was now facing an internal crisis that he had not foreseen. Building on the effectiveness of this type of quick assessment, we developed the Stress-APGAR barometer. The tipping point of distress.

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