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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). Recruitment and Retention Across Cultures. During my career of 25 years, I have met and worked with dozens of recruiters and search firms. Happy Hunting!

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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. & Lord, R. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Collins, J.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

The Empathy Index seeks to answer the question: Which companies are successfully creating empathetic cultures? Methodology. This year’s index builds on the methodology of last year’s. Additional geographies, including Africa, will be added in the next report, in March 2017. Creating a More Empathetic Company.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

And the impact on Manizales’ culture has not gone unnoticed: “Manizales-Más has opened our city to the world,” was how one young university student put it to me. The criticism came quick, but the seed of the new culture had been planted: growth, not start, was the goal. 1 – Quickly demonstrating new growth.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. of the company.