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If Only It Was So Easy

Martinka Consulting

Job search – wouldn’t it be nice if prospective employees knew about the company’s culture before accepting the job? She didn’t get the job and feels relieved about it as it appears (not verified) there’s a culture of backstabbing. During a recent meeting, someone was talking about how they were firing a customer.

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9 Talent Management Questions to Test If You are On the Right Track

LSA Global

If you truly want to attract, develop, engage and retain a high performing workforce, you have to break through talent management barriers – outmoded ways of thinking about talent in old-fashioned and ineffective ways. 75% or more of teams meet their performance goals. The Goal of Talent Management.

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The Most Common Systematic Failure In Crisis Communication – And Odds Are, You’re Vulnerable To It

Melissa Agnes

One important aspect of your organization’s successful crisis management, is being able to reach out to, and communicate with, all impacted and relevant stakeholders, in a timely and efficient fashion. Step 2: Schedule meetings with the heads of each department (or those who own the relationships with your various stakeholders).

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. He’s the CEO and self-titled “Head Coach ” of Björn Borg, the Swedish sports fashion company named after the tennis star.

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5 Practical Ways to Engage a Geographically Distributed Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DATASTAX

Harvard Business

If you want a distributed culture, it’s not going to happen by accident. When we decided to take a “distributed first” approach to meetings, not everyone was comfortable with the idea. For example, each week we have an extended leadership meeting with 12-14 participants in nine cities, half of whom may be co-located.

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Why Aren’t There More Asian Americans in Leadership Positions?

Harvard Business

In three studies, published in 2010 in the Journal of Applied Psychology , Tom Sy and his colleagues designed vignettes describing an Asian or white leader (Tung-Sheng Wong vs. John Davis) who worked in engineering or sales. Asians were rated as lower on leadership overall, but more so in sales than engineering.

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Most Reorgs Aren’t Ambitious Enough

Harvard Business

Without critical self-reflection, organizations build silos, bureaucracies, and cultures that impede rather than enable performance. Great service sits at the intersection of sales, customer service, and supply chain. Who is our customer? It may sound obvious, but it’s astounding how often these questions go unasked.

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