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First Look: Leadership Books for March 2024

Leading Blog

From the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, Slow Productivity provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment. But are these really our only choices?

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Top Ten Strategies for Business Success in 2024.

Rich Gee Group

Stay sharp, or you might find your company on the dull side of the business blade." Being flexible and innovative is crucial to sustaining long-term growth. "Remember, in 2024, if your business isn't on the cutting edge, it might just be getting cut by the edge. To stay ahead, businesses must adapt swiftly and strategically.

Strategy 195
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Post-Quarantine Leadership Lessons

Lead Change Blog

Very few skills left unused remain sharp. Keep your eye on the long-term goal, set a timeline, and keep plugging away. There’s no shame in that. Embrace getting those skills back into shape. Knuckle down. There’s going to be hard work, reluctance, and occasional slip-ups along the way.

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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

Leading Blog

T HE TERM “outward bound” was originally used to describe ships departing their home port for foreign destinations. Whether vertically integrated or diversified, the boundaries of these organizations remained sharp, with the new activities reporting through the established hierarchy. Some outsourcing has been around for a long time.

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Research Explores How To Avoid Layoffs During A Crisis

The Horizons Tracker

in 2022 as the sector saw a sharp reversal in fortunes. Retaining workers Not only are firms that participate in these programs more likely to retain workers in the long term but they’re also more likely to survive themselves, even if such participation also provides short-term impediments to efficient labor market allocation.

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Enabling Growth: Promotions Are So Yesterday

QAspire

As attrition soared amidst pandemic, companies had to initiate short term measures to retain their best talent which included tactics like special salary hikes, off-cycle pay outs, work-from-anywhere options and offering special learning opportunities. We climb our way up through the winding roads with sharp turns.”

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What’s in your transformation zone now?

Lead Change Blog

That challenge brings into sharp focus the impact of your people strategy. Direction—short, mid and long-term—then becomes the province of all, not just you. Now, here in the UK in July 2020, organisations of all types are reviewing their investment priorities, especially in the face of a growing recession.