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Understanding the Costs and Causes of Employee Turnover

Tom Spencer

Fitz–Enz (2009) , who coined the term ‘ROI of Human Capital’, also included costs such as: Reduced productivity – the learning curve effect posits that average production costs fall in a predictable manner with total accumulated production. Oswald et al (2015) claims that happiness leads to a 12% increase in productivity.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C °C (3.8°F) °C (2.7°F).

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What I Learned from Trying to Innovate at the New York Times

Harvard Business

” They also measure the value of this activity, and expect to see a real ROI. They measure efficiency, productivity, quality of the network, quality of inputs and outputs. zbysiu rodak. As Jeff Stump, a partner there, said to me, “If a pin drops in our network we want to know about it.”

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Inside the Minds of Your Prospects: 37 Critical Digital Marketing Statistics for Consultants

Tsavo Neal

Blogging and content marketing is one of the most efficient ways for consultants to generate more leads. Investing in UX (the art of making your website and entire sales process user-focused and easier for them to get what they want) has a huge ROI. Email marketing has an average ROI of 3800%. Source: Usability Geek.

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How Learning and Development Are Becoming More Agile

Harvard Business

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. A growing percentage of this investment supports peer learning.

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