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Keeping Your People Engaged in Tough Times

Marshall Goldsmith

Heskett and W. Appeal to the Better Nature of Your Employee-Owners The current economic crisis provides the national government with the basis for establishing a citizenry characterized by volunteerism. Marshall: I hear this concern every where I travel these days. Who doesn't? Earl Sasser, Jr. They can foster "ownership" behaviors.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

James Heskett and John Kotter found that organizations with strong corporate cultures realized over eleven years revenue growth of 682 percent, employment growth of 282 percent and stock price growth of 901 percent. Boards see the negative impact of a culture crisis on the value of their companies.

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Is Kindness a Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

Crisis averted. Heskett of Harvard Business School observes, it's important to endow workers on the front line with "latitude within limits." She took Frank all the way to the gate, and Frank made his flight. He also made the meeting on time — and told the entire board about the "miracle" he'd experienced at DFW.