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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

They learned and practiced how to communicate effectively and resolve conflicts, build teams to succeed, lead meetings that didn’t waste time, lead change that would stick, walk the talk with our organizational values, and finally how to engage and manage our talent. Consider leaving a comment!

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Research: Women Ask for Raises as Often as Men, but Are Less Likely to Get Them

Harvard Business Review

The bottom line of our study is that women do “ask” just as often as men. While that may sound like a modest difference, over a lifetime it really adds up. … Were you concerned about negative effects on your relationship with your manager/employer?” What we found contradicts previous research.

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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

More than two-thirds of large businesses now offer disease-management programs , but most of these are bricks-and-mortar services that can be converted to better-studied, cheaper, and more effective digital therapeutics. Insight Center. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic. Cost structure. Ease of use.

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Here’s What Mindfulness Is (and Isn’t) Good For

Harvard Business Review

The tricky thing about trying to interpret research about mindfulness is that many studies that claim great things for mindfulness are less rigorous than others, even though they may be peer reviewed. How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. You and Your Team Series. Resilience. Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. Lead by example.

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Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

With political upheaval roiling the streets of Cairo, the first concern of top management in many multinationals is to get their employees and their families out of Egypt safely. Foreign subsidiaries can expect local sales to fall and distribution channels to come to a halt, with depressing consequences for the bottom line.

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

To us, it’s similar to asking whether reviews, training programs, employee assistance services, or other company initiatives are effective for both worker performance and the bottom line. And there are five common ways these solitary initiatives tend to pop up in companies. Administering health risk assessments only.