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How Our Company Connected Our Strategy to Sustainability Goals

Harvard Business

In 2016, the United Nations adopted 17 goals—commonly known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. Our network of global Green Teams took this to heart and made considerable strides in 2016 by diverting 2.4

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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

A healthy culture promotes productive conflict, team member participation, and team engagement. In 2004, there were over 30,000 acquisitions completed globally, and in 2015 the total deal value equaled $5 trillion, which is more than the gross domestic product (GDP) of countries like Ireland and Switzerland. REFERENCES Cameron, K.

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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business

What type of office design is best for productivity and engagement? Beginning in the Spring of 2016, our workplace analytics group worked with commercial real estate company CBRE to calculate the cost savings associated with relocating a 1,200-person Microsoft engineering organization from five buildings into four other buildings.

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How Organizations Can Thrive in the Digital Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM KORN FERRY

Harvard Business

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). Such organizations do so by prioritizing the things that drive the most value—customers and talent, data, and products—and then they are disciplined in their execution.

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How to Motivate Frontline Employees

Harvard Business

In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization asked us to help boost their frontline performance. Each store also had a weekly 45-minute meeting for teams to review their past performance and experiments, without shame or blame, in the spirit of generating new ideas. There were rules.

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Selfless love is proven to enhance organizational com [link] mitment, productivity, job performance, and emotional well-being. It is when leaders use facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. HarperBusiness. Mulinge, P.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.