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The Insiders Guide to Micromanagement

Lead Change Blog

Read more… Author information Karin Hurt CEO at Let''s Grow Leaders Karin hurt is CEO of Let''s Grow Leaders, a leadership consulting firm focused on helping companies achieve transformational results by building rock-solid frontline leadership teams. Karin lives in Baltimore with her husband and two sons.

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Employee Recognition: Why It’s So Important and How to Do It

Chart Your Course

Human resources firm Bersin found in a 2012 study that 87 percent of companies utilize tenure-based employee recognition programs, despite research showing these methods are outdated. The Harvard Business Review published the results of a study that followed employees of a Chinese call center called Ctrip.

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Chip Shots – When The Leader You Got Is Not The Leader You Wanted

Lead Change Blog

In our Chip Shots feature, our Leading Voices are invited to provide brief insights into a leadership dilemma. Have you ever been in a position as a manager to facilitate a team through the on-boarding of a leader to whom they had expressed opposition? Ensure that the new manager is briefed in order to be prepared.

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Even “bad” cultures get some things right

Surviving Leadership

I also truly appreciated some of the business practices that leadership followed that I have missed in other organizations, including ones highlighted in McCord’s book. This would include a day spent with an installation tech and a day spent with a call center agent – preferably, in a market other than your own.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

Your federal small business loan can fund a call center and answering service , linking local talent to employers nationwide. Women Leadership and Mad Men Some revolutions are bloody, and some are flash-in-the-pan moments. Authentic Leadership I was recently at the Pa. Governor’s Conference for Women.

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Work in the Future Will Fall into These 4 Categories

Harvard Business Review

Important clues are emerging from a unique consortium of human resource executives and other leaders. Beyond traditional hierarchies and contracts, networks and social and external collaborations will make leadership more horizontal, shared, and collective. How can leaders navigate this new digital work ecosystem?

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What Tomorrow's Leaders Are Learning in Africa Right Now

Harvard Business Review

Like Samsung, we have found it critical to establish leadership in home markets first, we place a similar importance on mixing local and global talent, and we faced the same cultural integration challenges. We see building a pipeline of management talent in small to medium-sized companies as a key driver of that growth.