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Harmony & Rythm in Organizational Development

Harmonious Workplaces

Parallels between shared music-making and OD In the dynamic world of organizational development (OD), business leaders oftentimes find themselves on a continuous quest to find innovative and effective strategies for fostering teamwork, navigating change, and enhancing employee well-being. References Bittman, B., Stevens, C., Bridges, W.

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Designing Strategic Organizations: The New Work of Executives and HR (Kesler and Kates, People & Strategy, 2010)

Kates Kesler

People & Strategy, 2010. They grapple with the question of how to align the components of the organization to execute strategy and remove barriers so that members of the organization can make the right decisions and do their best work. Organizations will be as complex as the strategies they are designed to execute.

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1 Strategy to Avoid Tolerating Poor Performance

Organizational Talent Consulting

Research studies have linked effective performance management with positive individual and organizational outcomes such as increased productivity, decreased employee turnover intentions , reduced absenteeism, improved operational efficiency, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction. Consequences of Tolerating Poor Performance.

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Inside UPS’s Electric Vehicle Strategy

Harvard Business

These new trucks will create significant additional value for the business in ongoing operational savings, improved routing efficiency, and brand building. in 2010, and has a couple thousand hybrids or EVs on the road now. Second, the higher-tech vehicles will operate more efficiently. FedEx got there early in the U.S.,

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Consultant Ninja: Information Visualization Irony: Management.

Consultant Ninja

It lacks functionality and an efficient UI, and is overpriced." - Andy Holaday "Its a cascading hierarchy of awfulness, which almost makes it challenging to critique!" - Tim Wilson "But it’s not just the people with the purse strings who will buy something because its a) pretty, b) expensive and c) they’ve heard of it." - N Barrett.

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What's Servant Leadership?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Evidence suggests that selfless love increases leader and follower commitment, yielding enhanced intrinsic motivation that amplifies workforce and business strategy alignment. Intrinsic motivation is also a moderating factor in employee engagement. It improved intrinsic motivation results in higher levels of employee engagement. McGraw-Hill.

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Japan Tells Firms "Stop Sitting on Cash", Ignore the Lack of Customers

MishTalk

Okumas clients "are not investing, not even to raise efficiency, so we are not investing either," he says. or financial instrument, or to participate in any particular trading or investment strategy. 2010-03-12 - Mish with Marc Faber. 2010-02-12 Max Keiser. December 2010 (122). November 2010 (122).