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Recruiters You Should Meet to Staff for Success

Harmonious Workplaces

Retained search firms and recruiters play a crucial role in attracting and retaining human capital in organizations across cultures (Allen & Vardaman, 2017). However, I have found that the best results came from working with highly motivated, strongly competent, and extremely ethical recruiters who own and operate small businesses.

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How to Use Reflection to Bring Out Your Best in the New Year

Organizational Talent Consulting

Reflection facilitates learning, provides perspective on self-limiting beliefs when used purposefully, and improves productivity. Evidence suggests spending 15 minutes a day improves productivity by as much as 23% more than those without reflection time. Why Reflection Makes A Big Difference. References: Densten, I. & Gray, J.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes. So he began by learning everything he could about maximizing organizational productivity.

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Why Visionary CEOs Never Have Visionary Successors

Harvard Business

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. And services have a very different business model.

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How Companies Escape the Traps of the Past

Harvard Business

Box 3: Generate breakthrough ideas and convert them into new products and businesses. And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. One effective way is to work on culture. Box 2 muscle requires a culture where honest Box 2 questions are encouraged.

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Selfless love cultivates an organizational culture where healthy and caring leader-follower relationships break down the adverse effects of our differences. Selfless love is proven to enhance organizational com [link] mitment, productivity, job performance, and emotional well-being. References Acemoglu, D., & & Restrepo, P.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Investors preferred new SaaS products over product conversions and valued having a product fallback option. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc.

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