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Connecting with Abrasive Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

There are many reasons why these leaders are not confronted directly – key customer/client contacts, technical expertise, political connections, or powerful mentors. Meanwhile, their behavior has consequences: - Low employee morale, retaliation, passive aggression, attrition. Mistakes, loss of creativity and innovation.

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The Best Way to Network in a New Job

Harvard Business Review

We started by tracking people joining companies with employee bases ranging from a few hundred to more than 40,000 people and pairing their progress in making social connections with monthly attrition data. 3 Simple Ways for Women to Rethink Office Politics and Wield More Influence at Work. You and Your Team Series. Networking.

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Keep Employees from Leaving by Emphasizing Teamwork

Harvard Business Review

An entrepreneurial society is one in which innovation and new business creation are, as Peter Drucker put it, “an integral, life-sustaining activity” across organizations and the economy. By emphasizing that entrepreneurial innovation is a team effort. ” How can we change this dynamic?

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For Better or Worse: Meetings Are a Hologram of Organizational Culture

The Practical Leader

Organizational culture is also a key factor in levels of employee engagement, extra effort, innovation, morale, and teamwork. One study found “a toxic corporate culture is by far the strongest predictor of industry-adjusted attrition and is 10 times more important than compensation in predicting turnover.”

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The Case for Paying People More

Harvard Business Review

In 1914, Henry Ford famously more than doubled wages at his factories , mainly to fight attrition but also so that Ford''s assembly line workers could afford to buy the cars they were making. Is it a valid topic for economic research and political debate that ought to be getting more attention? One is whether the doldrums the U.S.

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How SAP Labs India Became An Innovation Dynamo

Harvard Business Review

SAP's senior management asked Ferose to shore up employee morale at SAP Labs India, where the attrition rate had reached a painful 19% in 2009. This belief led Ferose to overhaul SAP Labs India's hierarchical, 'top-heavy' corporate culture, allowing bottom-up creativity and innovation to blossom.