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Changing The Talent Equation: From Expense to Asset

Rich Gee Group

Downsizing, salary cuts, and underinvestment in employee development can decrease morale, productivity, and overall company performance, ultimately impacting the bottom line. Discouraging Investments in Skills and Development By viewing employees as expenses, companies become reluctant to invest in training and development programs.

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Are You Fighting the Future or Adapting To It?

Harvard Business Review

In fact, the company has about 500 metrics that it tracks every day, the majority of them relating to the customer experience. In our book Repeatability , Chris Zook and I show how top-performing companies typically develop repeatable models that incorporate their strategy in front-line activities. It tracks all those metrics.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business Review

The primary focus was on fixing the acquired firm through financial restructuring, dramatic cost cutting, and strategic slashing. a condo development, apartment building, or golf course). But the planned urban development PUD also has shared infrastructure and systems that enable the community to operate (e.g.,

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Have a Real Impact; Keep Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers. Some are recent graduates.

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When It Pays to Collaborate with Competitors at Work

Harvard Business Review

For instance, Doug shared some new concepts for transforming an insurmountable checklist of requirements into manageable benchmarks and priorities, which he had developed after conducting a comprehensive review of his company’s operations. He also shared supply discipline systems that reduced common inefficiencies.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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Six Classes Your Employer Wishes You Could Take

Harvard Business Review

The ability to immerse oneself in terabytes of data, identify (individually or collaboratively) what''s most important and restructure it in an accessible, meaningful and usable form for a variety of audiences will increasingly be an essential skill. The kitchen can and should be a laboratory for innovation.

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