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How to Learn from the Mistakes of Other People

Frank Sonnenberg Online

When people leave an organization, either through retirement or attrition, they take valuable experience with them. If you’re part of an organization, it’s not enough to learn a lesson — it’s critical to share that lesson with your colleagues. Here are two ideas for your consideration: Create a knowledge database.

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Talent on Demand

Marshall Goldsmith

Our internal "pipelines" of talent also prove misleading because of unpredictable attrition. The biggest concern with development seems to be attrition. In order to keep employees from leaving, most employers give them more say about managing their careers. that we invest in employees and they leave.

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When People Don't Know. a Guest Post from Steve Roesler

Kevin Eikenberry

a Guest Post from Steve Roesler by Kevin Eikenberry on November 23, 2010 in Guest Posts , Leadership , Leadership Blogs , Learning Steve Roesler is an award-winning writer and speaker on leadership, management, and career management topics and can be followed online at the popular All Things Workplace website.

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Why No One Gets Away with Trash Talk Anymore

Harvard Business Review

This summer, a milestone crept up on me—I realized it’s been twenty-five years since I began my career as a professor. And how grateful I should be to an early mentor whose advice, I would say, led to my good fortune. I began my career at Louisiana State University in August of 1989. And you’re in for a long career.

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The Best Ways Your Organization Can Support Working Parents

Harvard Business Review

What are their attrition patterns? It didn’t find attrition immediately after maternity leave, but there was a previously unseen pattern of departures 12–18 months afterward. Among working parents, this practice is particularly dangerous, leading to burnout, family issues, performance decline, or attrition.

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What’s Holding Women in Medicine Back from Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Evidence shows that women in academic medicine experience greater challenges finding mentors and sponsors than men, and that this gap likely contributes to career disparities. found that 30% of women (compared to 4% of men) had experienced sexual harassment from a superior or colleague in their careers. Career flexibility.

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Don’t Underestimate the Power of Women Supporting Each Other at Work

Harvard Business Review

As I advanced in my career, I hosted women-only lunches and created open channels of communication. In doing so, I hope it lowered the attrition rate of women working at my company — rates that are, across all corporate jobs , stubbornly higher for women than men, especially women of color.

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