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Get your employees engaged and invested in your company’s long-term success

leaderCommunicator

Use these five tips to get your employees on board early and to ensure their participation in the long run: Complete a SWOT analysis. Based on the SWOT, work with your leaders to develop or validate/update your vision , mission, values and goals. Develop and then test messages. Food for thought that means business.

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Outsizing Strategies to Grow Your Business Potential

Skip Prichard

I wanted a term to encompass the strategies that push the boundaries of what was previously thought possible. As applied to business, the term captures the essence of these household names that grew from nothing into megabrands by a fierce dedication to learning, growth, and significance. However, they fail to follow-up.

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The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

Harvard Business Review

In Conference Board’s 2015 CEO Challenge study , 943 CEOs ranked “human capital” and “innovation” as their top two long-term challenges to driving business growth. The 21st-Century CEO. The 21st-Century CEO. Examine how these skills will help achieve long-term goals.

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Cutting Costs Without Cutting People

Harvard Business Review

Subsequent stock price performance proved its unpopularity with investors while numerous studies over the last decade demonstrated the precedent for its long-term, damaging effects on company performance. One of the biggest mistakes that companies made during the recent crisis was the mass laying off of people to cut costs.

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