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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

It started 30 years ago with the progressive and unusual step (for that time) of shifting from local nationals as country managers to global leaders from other countries. As a consequence, five of its CEOs have been non-American-born, including today's CEO, Turkish-born Muhtar Kent.

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3 Critical Components of a Shared Mental Model

Lead Change Blog

The “problem” with brilliant innovators, same as Fighter Pilots, is that when they are not given a clear vector on which to act, do not have a shared mental model of what the future and success should look like, they will develop their own path. But they were all running in different directions. Q6: What is your High Definition Destination ?

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. Managers assess performance. To manage” is “to control.”. “To To manage” is “to control.”.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. Managers assess performance. To manage” is “to control.”. “To To manage” is “to control.”.

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Most Organizations Still Fear Social Media

Harvard Business Review

Most organizations, however, still view social media as a threat to productivity, intellectual capital, security, privacy, management authority, or regulatory compliance. For example, a grass roots "Shores Stores Group" formed among the more than 100 store managers with stores located in vacation communities.

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