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Navigator Newsletter #180

Chart Your Course

According to their human resource department, it is harder to get a job at Zappos than to be accepted at Harvard Business School. The amazing thing is there are lots of innovative employees who have great ideas, but most of them go untapped. The strategies and concepts they apply at Zappos have had a significant impact.

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Five Ways Leaders Turns Doubters into Doers

Chart Your Course

Innovation has always been what makes good businesses great. And innovation does not happen without change and risk. Use meetings and internal communications – emails, newsletters, flyers – to explain the changes in a positive light. Part of being a leader is managing change. As Martin Luther King Jr. Great leaders know this.

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Where (and When) the Magic Happens

In the CEO Afterlife

Magic can’t happen in cultures that don’t worship innovation. Innovation starts with leadership. Most big company cultures are not innovative. Oh yes, they talk about innovation in their annual reports and their mission statements. But this isn’t the Apple, Google or Amazon type of innovation. Failure is lauded.

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Playing the Long Game: The Employee Retention Process in HR

HR Digest

Amidst their country’s tech talent shortage, HP Indonesia is doing its best to focus on its employee retention instead of acquisition efforts, according to Human Resources Online. It takes an active HR department and research team to keep their eyes on shifting trends in order to find innovative ways to retain employees.

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The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week - A Look Ahead at 2011

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Shawn Parr, Fast Company : 10 New Year's Resolutions for Innovative Teams Mark Stelzner, Inflexion Advisors : 2011: The Year of Reactionary HR Seth Godin's Blog : Maybe Next Year.

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Possibility Maximizer: SmartBrief on Leadership

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Our editors hand-pick the most relevant and important news from all over, summarize it, link to the original sources and deliver it -- for FREE -- in one-stop-shop e-newsletters. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S.

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Complimentary Resource – Driving Stronger Performance through Employee Recognition

Strategy Driven

In this Spring 2013 report, more than 800 HR leaders and practitioners share their perspectives on innovations and technologies that are changing the way people are managed and measured. Learn: The biggest challenges and opportunities for managing human capital. The effect of new innovations like crowdsourced data on performance.