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Employee Engagement Articles

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Why Your CEO and CFO Should Care About Employee Engagement TLNT, 2013. How Employee Engagement Hits the Bottom Line Harvard Business Review, November 2012. The Innovation Catalysts Harvard Business Review, June 2011. Ten Steps to Build Real Start-up Team Engagement Forbes, featuring Louder than Words, May 2011.

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You Can't Argue With Crazy | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly. Bottom lineā€¦If you can’t avoid the crazies there is still hope…I sincerely believe productive working relationships can be formed with even the most difficult people where there is a sincere desire/need to do so. I Think Not.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

In light of this, an employee is evaluated not based on what she contributed to the company’s bottom line, but whether she identified a new, breakthrough idea. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics.

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How U.S. Health Care Got Safer by Focusing on the Patient Experience

Harvard Business Review

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. How the most innovative providers are creating value. percentage points higher than those in the bottom quartile.

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. Viewed this way, there is a bottom-up solution to the problem of America’s uninsured. It also pursued process innovations that resulted in cost savings. America spends $3.3

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Why GEā€™s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

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Understanding the Stages of Retail

Harvard Business Review

And indeed he had a very innovative strategy for J. Costco's CFO, Richard Galanti stated, "People are eating in more and looking for fresh food, which, along with [our] low gas prices, is what are driving people into our stores more often. Then, once they are inside, they pick up a sweater or a new television.".

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