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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

Yet despite our very tight job market, highly effective “magnet companies” attract and hang on to good people. Their reputation or “leadership brand” has become as critical to their success as the company brand they are selling in their market. Brand management is an inside job.

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To Win People Over, Speak to Their Wants and Needs

Harvard Business Review

But it led to an even larger shift in IBM’s culture, transforming the company from an inwardly focused bureaucracy to a market-driven innovator. It was an important step in the strategy-making process, enabling the executive team to build plans to make IBM relevant and competitive again.

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1 in 5 Highly Engaged Employees Is at Risk of Burnout

Harvard Business Review

In the first two months, she single-handedly organized a large conference – marketing and organizing all the details of the conference and filling it to capacity. She worked long hours to ensure that her staff was properly managed, that her deadlines were met, and that her team’s work was nothing short of outstanding.

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New Books from HBR Press for August

Harvard Business Review

But it is also a complex market, with a reputation for corruption, uncertainty, and bureaucracy. Ravi Venkatesan, the former Chairman of Microsoft India, offers inside advice on how your firm can overcome the unique challenges of the Indian market. The old way to market a business was storytelling. by Thomas H.

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