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When Is Teamwork Really Necessary?

Harvard Business

While the group liked getting together and engaging in some joint activities — such as goal setting, best-practice sharing, and talent development — people often wondered why they were in the room. Talent Developers: attract, assess, develop, and retain talent. Talent developers. Agenda setters. Integrators.

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

An office environment reflects and reinforces a business’s core values, through the placement of different teams and functions and design elements that reflect culture, brand, and values. To illustrate how this all plays out on a larger scale in real companies, here are two mini case studies from businesses we’ve worked with.

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The Connection Between Employee Trust and Financial Performance

Harvard Business

Contrary to popular belief, cultivating a high-trust culture is not a “soft” skill — it’s a hard necessity. ” These trust taxes and dividends are real and essential for leaders to understand as they develop their trust-building competence. How to Develop the Trust-Building Skill.

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What to Do When You’re Returning to a Company You Used to Work For

Harvard Business

” For both workers and employers, the boomerang represents “a positive development,” says Karen Dillon, coauthor of several best-selling titles, including How Will You Measure Your Life? You might have “realized the culture was wonderful and you miss it.” “Former employees are known quantities.”

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business

In the end, a combination of unattainable objectives, an environment that lacked transparency, and a culture where failure was not perceived to be a viable option, led some VA administrators and clinic staff to manipulate data to make it appear as though the wait time goal was being achieved. The stakes, in other words, were high.

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