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Internal Hires Need Just as Much Support as External Ones

Harvard Business Review

But just four months into his new job, as a business unit leader at a large specialty chemicals and plastics manufacturer, he was struggling with the challenges of handling a global business with more than 3000 employees. “So taking new roles is just part of their jobs and a core part of their development.”

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

Worse yet, they’ll sometimes hire different vendors to address different issues – lifestyle coaches, employee assistance counselors, case and disease management vendors, nurse lines, occupational health and safety experts, workers’ compensation specialists, disability managers, organizational development consultants, you name it.

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True North Groups: A Conversation With Bill George

Harvard Business Review

In True North Groups , Bill and Doug provide an extremely insightful and practical roadmap for how you can create your own ecosystem for mutual support, feedback, development, and, ultimately, lifelong learning collaborators. My 13 years with Medtronic became the most important of my career. It is a very timely book.

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To Find Meaning in Your Work, Change How You Think About It

Harvard Business Review

The participants compete to show skill in their work, and often do so with great passion. ” One would rearrange artwork in rooms to stimulate comatose patients’ brains; others devoted time to learning about the chemicals they used for cleaning rooms and figuring out which were least likely to irritate patients’ conditions.

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The Future Economy Project: Q&A with Marne Levine

Harvard Business Review

This means that Facebook is the largest participant in the program, and we are really proud of that. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. We also announced that we are switching all electric accounts at our Menlo Park headquarters to Peninsula Clean Energy’s ECO100 option. We need both.

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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

To help answer why there are not more women in the top ranks of leadership, scientists at Development Dimensions International (DDI) , the global leadership development consultancy, released two research studies aimed at finding the answers. Make sure your leaders have high-quality development plans.

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