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Hundreds of Employee Engagement Ideas

Michael Lee Stallard

The results were compiled in an e-book entitled The Top Tens of Employee Engagement. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Reinvent Opportunity, Restore Satisfaction

Women on Business

Clearly it is unrealistic for a CEO to meet personally with each individual, but companies should encourage executives and managers to have conversations with employees, particularly those who seem unengaged or dissatisfied. 4. Expand employee networks.

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To Change Your Strategy, First Change How You Think

Harvard Business Review

Southwest’s innovation was to focus on low fares with one-class cabins, homogenous fleets, and point-to-point routes. When Continental shuttered Lite, then CEO Gordon Bethune said, “It wasn’t implemented in an orchestrated way.” All of these efforts failed. The carriers blamed poor execution.

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Leaders, Drop Your Masks

Harvard Business Review

These seven concepts helped all the CEOs we studied make the transition from ineffective to effective, stymied to successful, frustrated to celebrated, and in my consulting practice over the past few years, I’ve helped many more executives do the same. This three-minute animation provides a neat summary of the metaphor.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

Eventually, businesses became department stores, specialty stores and malls, and finally, today''s e-businesses and networked organizations that support them. Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. What does it mean to view innovation as the only competitive advantage?

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On a Consumer Watershed

Marshall Goldsmith

These new challenges include: Moving from a more hierarchical organization toward a more “networkedorganization. In a hierarchical organization, leaders can more easily give orders and expect people to respond. In a network organization, leaders need to effectively influence people without line authority.

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Value-Based Health Care Is Inevitable and That’s Good

Harvard Business Review

Whether providers like it or not, health care is evolving from a proficiency-based art to a data-driven science, from freelance physicians to hospital-employed physicians, from one-size-fits-all community hospitals to vast hospital networks organized around centers of excellence. Leading Health Care Innovation. Mining Data.