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The Art of Asking the Right Questions—How to Conduct Stay Interviews

HR Digest

These interviews can be conducted with all employees but they’re primarily held with long-term, high-performing workers who have the most insight to offer to the company. With top-quality workers, employee retention strategies take the highest priority and the only way to sustain their loyalty is to cater to their needs satisfactorily.

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Steve Jobs and The Bobby Knight School of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

He routinely denigrated the ideas and accomplishments of employees, expected a commitment to work but seldom appreciated loyalty, arbitrarily fired people, disregarded the feelings of others, excluded people from "secret" projects, routinely took credit for the accomplishments of others, and did not allow others to have a public face.

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Impress Your Foreign Boss

Harvard Business Review

Interestingly, that did not seem to be a problem in his performance review. The good news is that you start with what you''d typically do in your native culture: do great work, show loyalty to your boss and to the organization, and help your boss accomplish his or her professional goals. so that''s what he did.