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Loyalty vs. Tenure | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If your organization confuses loyalty and tenure there is trouble on the horizon…If your business rates tenure higher than performance as a measure for employee evaluation, it is time for you to consider updating your talent management practices and procedures. So, what’s wrong with tenure you ask?

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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. If your CMO is making all of your brand decisions there will be h*ll to pay down the road.

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Pushing Employees to Go the Extra Mile Can Be Counterproductive

Harvard Business Review

How talent management is changing. It views morality as a kind of bank account. This entitlement is funded by those recently deposited credits in the moral bank account. In other words, compliance leads to deviance. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Perhaps people are promoted according to unwritten rules that will ensure compliance with the status quo. How employees feel about the company.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management.

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3 Ways Social Entrepreneurs Can Solve Their Talent Problem

Harvard Business Review

Bringing light to Africa , mobile banking to Bangladesh , low-cost health care to Nepal, or better school lunches to the American cafeteria: In all these cases, the private sector is a big part of the action. That social entrepreneurs can make a difference is not in question ( here are dozens of examples).

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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business Review

Reliability through compliance. knowledge management and talent management); Activities that involve cross-unit arbitration, i.e. weighing alternatives and setting priorities (e.g., For example, there is quite a difference between dealing with a regulator, say, in India and one in Indonesia. brands and capital).