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Learning without training – Books

The Management Centre

And whilst we spend almost all of our time delivering training, we wholeheartedly believe in learning lots of things in lots of different ways. There are thousands of management and leadership books, on all kinds of topics. Books are particularly useful if you want to take your time to digest ideas and to process information.

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Why Reducing Stress Stabilises Your Profits

Tom Spencer

The American Institute of Stress in 2014 estimated that around $300 billion is lost each year in America due to stress related absenteeism and health costs. Unmanaged stress can impact profits. While in the UK, the Labour Force Survey found that 11.7 million days were lost in 2015/16 due to stress.

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business

per year between 1987 and 2014. ” Similarly, while some managers expressed anxiety about having to post schedules two weeks in advance, 90% managed to do so (excluding three outliers where constant changes in store leadership subverted stores’ ability to comply with company policies).

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