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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. It was Noelle’s third scheduled meeting to review financials, and again she was alone in a conference room waiting for people to show up. It is Marshall, right?”

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Infosys Consulting Interviews & Culture

Management Consulted

After flying out to Bangalore to pitch their idea, Pratt and Joshi were surprised to be given a meeting with the whole board of directors and went on to explain that their GDM would allow Infosys to undercut its competitors. INFOSYS CONSULTING CULTURE. As such, humility is a core part of the Infosys culture. Exit Opportunities.

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Case Study: An Office Romance Gone Wrong

Harvard Business

Brad: Drink after the conference? They were at a conference, with industry contacts all around, using their corporate expense accounts. Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Elizabeth: The whole gang?

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8 New Leadership Books

Brimstone Consulting

In Digital Body Language , Erica Dhawan, a go-to thought leader on collaboration and a passionate communication junkie, combines cutting-edge research with engaging storytelling to decode the new signals and cues that have replaced traditional body language across genders, generations, and culture. Writing clearly is the new empathy.

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Top 4 Behaviors of Highly Collaborative Teams

Cheryl Cran

Recently I had a conference call with a client who stated that they had a culture that has a spirit of collaboration but that their teams struggled with the behaviors of collaboration. Organizations have many cultural norms. These are unique identifiers for the organization that are unspoken and permeate throughout the culture.

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9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work

Harvard Business

Why, then, haven’t more organizations taken concrete actions to focus their cultures on the creation of meaning? First, any business case hinges on the ability to translate meaning, as an abstraction, into dollars. By contrast, since 2005, the importance of meaningfulness in driving job selection has grown steadily.

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Staying Focused in a Noisy Open Office

Harvard Business

You should take full advantage of empty conference rooms, semi-private cubicles, and quiet alcoves, says Burkus. Case Study #1: Be positive, and distance yourself from distractions when necessary. Case Study #2: Develop ground rules and find a way to quiet your brain. ” Leave the office (temporarily).