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Playing the Long Game: The Employee Retention Process in HR

HR Digest

Analyze hiring practices by competitors and see what benefits they offer Keep an eye on research reports that are put out by organizations like Deloitte, McKinsey, SHRM, etc.

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Time Is Money: Top Tech Tools to Increase Company Productivity

Chart Your Course

Only 52 percent of companies spend their time in a way that aligns with their strategic goals, according to a McKinsey survey of 1,500 executives from businesses of all sizes around the world. Some executives lost time by wasting too many hours online. Others got distracted by meetings, motivating their staff, or handling chronic emergencies.

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Sales Still Matters More than Social Media

Harvard Business Review

Both cite a McKinsey survey which, ironically, found that “Organizations’ efforts to go digital. If you read the business press, you could easily assume that proficiency in social media or online data analytics now determine business success. Sales forces have NOT been replaced by social media or other internet tools.

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The Key to Career Growth: Surround Yourself with People Who Will Push You

Harvard Business Review

My dynamic circle of advisers and confidantes has included, in addition to my wife María and my Charles River friend, several other academics in the United States, an undergraduate professor in Argentina, a McKinsey director in Spain, and colleagues working in Egon Zehnder offices across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

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New York’s Train Derailment is a Reminder of the Importance of Sleep Health Policy

Harvard Business Review

In the meantime, however, the press conferences, the media coverage, the statements by work colleagues and Union officials are giving us a picture that fatigue may have played a central role. A meta study by McKinsey found that obstructive sleep apnea is responsible for a $65 bil to $165 billion hit annually to the American economy.

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Apple's Trojan Horse

Harvard Business Review

The Apple TV will whisk us to work, to school, to conferences, to the city, to Second Life, to our memory palace and virtual library, to shared worlds like Eve and Halo. The new Apple TV will have the form factor of TV but its real and revolutionary purpose will be telecommuting so good it''s going to feel like teleportation.

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When the Media Covers Gender Inequality, the C-Suite Listens

Harvard Business Review

And we found that this is due in large part to the media. Although no single factor can ensure gender equality at senior executive levels, the media — by which we mean both traditional and social — stands out as having the potential to help push the door open for women. When the media speaks, corporate executives listen.

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