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Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

Leading Blog

Despite its perceived importance, for the most part, companies have a miserable track record when it comes to managing their people. The Culture Dilemma Employee engagement in American companies has hovered around 30 percent for 60 years. B USINESSES are really bad at establishing an engaging culture. But what does this mean?

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Improve Your Positive Influence: Eliminate Common Obstacles

Leading Blog

The equation also applies to our individual capacity for positive influence (+influence). It’s very easy to have what CEO Seah Chin Siong of the Singapore Institute of Management calls “goal erosion,” defining it as “Doing what is easy, going through the motions, but not doing the hard things the ultimate mission requires.”

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Doubting Existing Management: Private Equity’s Talent Conundrum

N2Growth Blog

The journey from meticulous deal-making to managing assets proficiently has put an unprecedented emphasis on acquiring and retaining the right talent. The Talent Deficit Spectrum Diving deeper, the data reveals that 48% of fund managers in private equity firms and operating partners find their organizations understaffed.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

In the previous three parts of this series, we realized the challenging factors around searching for and placing an ideal candidate to lead a private equity portfolio company. As the investor leader, you are becoming more familiar with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. .

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7 Ways to Manage a Talent Shortage

Between the rapid rollout of vaccines, the financial stimulus, and increasingly positive jobs reports, hiring is on the rise. Become a company known for learning & training. Become a company known for benefits. Become a company known for pay equity. Optimize your recruiting efforts from the top down.

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Stop Letting the Latest Trend Dictate How You Run Your Company

Leading Blog

“Quiet firing” came about in response to it, describing the passive-aggressive behavior of managers who withhold opportunities from quiet-quitters instead of firing them altogether. If a company puts its talent first in its strategy and decision-making, these problems won’t arise in the first place. I call this a culture of feedback.

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RIP: Retired in Position

Lead Change Blog

“Retired in position” refers to an unengaged employee, a term which I first heard used by Ken Blanchard. Adding insult to injury, 52 percent of those workers are sleepwalking through their day or retired in position. It is quite the conundrum to challenge an employee in a position where there are no longer challenging opportunities.