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Win the Race for Talent – Talent Management magazine

Chart Your Course

Gordon - 5/10/13. organizations had employment models based on hiring recruits from college or training programs who were likely to stay with a company throughout their career.Skilled workers are becoming an endangered species. The pool of manager candidates ages 35 to 45 is inadequate to meet current needs.

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The Art of Irresistible Email

Harvard Business Review

As the director of training for a global professional services firm, she''d recently sent out a note explaining important changes to the summer training schedule and asking office directors to respond with their preferred locations. Training was a huge priority for her firm, so why were they ignoring her request? Time: 5 p.m.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

The evidence suggests the former: We could improve productivity if we stopped systematically underinvesting in human capital. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. The most direct and obvious investment is increased wages.

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Why You Should Tell Your Team to Take a Break and Go Outside

Harvard Business Review

Wellness programs are becoming an integral priority for most human resource managers. Leaders participate in mindfulness and compassion trainings and are coached to learn emotional intelligence. After all, research shows that a happier workplace is more productive.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions. I quit my job, and here I am, working only on what I am good at: business quality management.

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Case Study: The Gentleman's 3

Harvard Business Review

Between the inner and outer doors of Circale Corporation's headquarters building, human resources VP Nils Ekdahl crossed paths with CFO Anita Fierst as he was leaving for lunch. "We So the CEO had given the HR department a green light to create a new system that would force managers to be brutally honest. He called Milanese.