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Liz Ryan Reflects: A Decade Shaped by Human-Centric Revolution

HR Digest

In an exclusive interview with The HR Digest , Liz Ryan, the driving force behind the Human Workplace revolution, reflects on her transformative journey of empowering the workforce. We cannot assume that because someone implemented what was the best practice in the 1940s or 1960s, but it’s still the way we should be operating today.

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Stop Selling and Add Value | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The problem with many sales organizations is that they still operate with the same principles and techniques they were using in the 60′s, 70’s and 80’s. Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale.

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How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation

Harvard Business Review

In this article, we address each of these to show how leaders can engineer high-performing organizational cultures — and measure their impact on the bottom line. For example, Medtronic enables its engineers and technicians to see the medical devices they’ve made in action, so that they can see the purpose of their work.

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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

Harvard Business Review

Mayo staffs it value-improvement projects with a project leader to coordinate the team’s work, a systems engineering analyst to conduct process mapping, and a financial analyst to provide relevant data. Unfortunately, fewer than 20% of patients had completed both pre- and post-operative surveys. Select a project team.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. It suggests that Kalanick initially saw the HR function as a means of recruiting staff to support fast growth.

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44 Content Marketing Agencies Defined by 65 Marketers

Miles Anthony Smith

It leads to a higher search engine visibility through stronger online authority (links and social shares). Some companies haven’t used an agency because they believe no one knows their product and the reason for operating in their space as well as they do.

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