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Keeping Your People Engaged in Tough Times

Marshall Goldsmith

Heskett and W. Here's his take: Joe: Managers across the country are facing tough decisions as they try to manage their cost base against diminishing demand. More frequently, it's those who violate the norms of the organization and can't manage by the values shared by others. Earl Sasser, Jr.

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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. Would you briefly touch on them?

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Is Kindness a Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

Crisis averted. Every problem, if managed well, is thus an "opportunity" to boost overall loyalty among a company's already loyal customers. Heskett of Harvard Business School observes, it's important to endow workers on the front line with "latitude within limits." Spill soup on a guest in the hotel dining room?