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7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

3 Employee Comments that Contributes to a Toxic Culture “Management said we’d get fired if I said anything but…” Gossip spreads and often becomes worse. In one retail company, a group of managers did this ad nauseam about a selected few. However, let us get rid of the petty comments and think of others.

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Rethinking the Corporate Love Affair with Change

Harvard Business

Consider Amazon: The company has almost single-handedly transformed major parts of the retail, logistics, and internet sectors in just two decades. The greater an employee’s or customer’s sense of continuity in the company’s brand, values and culture, the more receptive that employee or customer will be to change.

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