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Interview with David McCuistion of Vanguard Organizational Leadership (VOL)

Modern Servant Leader

Additionally, Servant Leaders lead from a moral base, establishing a moral authority upon which trust and confidence is built. It makes them better personally, improves their loyalty to the organization because they feel they are valued as employees, and it reduces attrition, which in turn saves companies money.

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It’s Better to Avoid a Toxic Employee than Hire a Superstar

Harvard Business Review

The real difference could be even bigger, if you factor in other potential costs, such as litigation fees, regulatory fines, lower employee morale, and upset customers. and 3) daily performance data. The dataset spanned 11 global companies and 58,542 hourly workers.

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Hired by the Data, Fired by the Data

Harvard Business Review

But the power of analytics as a mechanism for making decisions about hiring and firing is still growing, and the "application of predictive analytics to people’s careers … is enormously challenging, not to mention ethically fraught." The attrition rate fell by 20% in the initial pilot period, and over time, the number of promotions rose.

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CEOs Face Off Against Trump (or Not)

Harvard Business Review

Other CEOs have gone much further, attacking the policy in moral terms. “Some CEOs are making a practical argument, some are making a moral argument, and some are combining them,” says Toffel, who’s currently working on a research-driven framework that will help CEOs think through the complexities of voicing political views.

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