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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). Without a recruitment firm’s assistance, a company’s internal staff must handle these tasks, which can detract from their core responsibilities and reduce overall productivity.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. A controlled study involving leaders across different markets found a positive correlation between the leader's effectiveness and employee retention, sales, margin, labor costs, and net profit. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Collins, J. HarperBusiness.

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The Impact of Raising Performance Expectations

LSA Global

Then in 2001 Takeru Kobayashi smashed the record and ate 50 in one sitting. Raising the performance bar is a cultural phenomenon that can be applied to the business world. We call an environment that stimulates the individuals within that context to significantly improve their performance a high performance culture.

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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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Why Visionary CEOs Never Have Visionary Successors

Harvard Business

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion. They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business

While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?” ” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands.

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The Key to Campbell Soup’s Turnaround? Civility.

Harvard Business

When Doug took over as CEO of Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the company had just lost half its market value, sales were declining, and the organization was reeling from a series of layoffs. These expectation-setting actions provided a public platform to build a performance-oriented culture and were crucial in transforming the culture.