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Keeping Your People Engaged in Tough Times

Marshall Goldsmith

Heskett and W. These actions, coupled with incentives that elicit new ideas for improving operations can send important positive messages at a time of stress. This is great advice. Marshall: I hear this concern every where I travel these days. Who doesn't? Earl Sasser, Jr. I asked him for his perspective on this question.

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Six Components of a Great Corporate Culture

Harvard Business Review

Heskett , culture "can account for 20-30% of the differential in corporate performance when compared with ''culturally unremarkable'' competitors." And HBR writers have offered advice on navigating different geographic cultures , selecting jobs based on culture , changing cultures , and offering feedback across cultures , among other topics.

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