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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Leaders striving for a better workplace may suffer consequences In a recent post on LinkedIn from the Business & Management Consultants open group, a contributor posted, “A manager who challenges the boss and stands up for their team, despite risking their own career, is a true leader.” I complied; he didn’t.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

In 1997, Jim promoted me from CSR (customer service representative) to assistant manager of Blockbuster within a few months just prior to my graduation from college. I also handled recruitment, payroll, inventory management, and other store operations.

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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

Only operating in the short term or taking too much risk and gambling on one specific future are frequent traps leaders fall into when facing economic uncertainty. Implementation typically involves experimentation, analyzing the existing strategies, and creative experiential learning exercises. Chermack, T. Douglas, R.

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Small Steps or Big Steps: What’s the Right Way to Begin Improvement?

Markovitz Consulting

Operational and financial improvements are rapid, dramatic, and lasting. The data on change management are consistent: about 70% of change initiatives fail, despite the plethora of books, conferences, and scholarly papers dedicated to the subject. then two minutes, then three, etc.

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The Secret to Leading Organizational Change Is Empathy

Harvard Business

These are major changes that will affect every aspect of how the firm operates — from the services it offers to the structure of her organization. We also asked if there were specific changes they hoped management would (or would not) make.

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The Common Myths About Performance Reviews, Debunked

Harvard Business

But amid these changes, how many organizations have ever taken a close look at how performance reviews actually operate in their own workplace, over the long term? Managers are too timid, so they give modest increases to their best performers and rarely hold back on increases for poor performers.

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A 4-Step Process to Help Senior Teams Prioritize Decisions

Harvard Business

Consider the experience of one of the world’s largest footwear manufacturers, whose leaders engaged in an exercise that others can use to revamp the way they make decisions. In its fast-changing industry, big challenges loomed on many fronts. It consists of these four steps: 1. Compile a list.