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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

Failing teams reinforce three inter-related issues: Only 15% of employees are engaged, based on employee engagement studies. Over 80% of managers fail according to leadership derailment studies. One large retail company tried for four years to improve their customer experience to no avail. If you do, you add to your woes.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

Failing teams reinforce three inter-related issues: Only 15% of employees are engaged, based on employee engagement studies. Over 80% of managers fail according to leadership derailment studies. One large retail company tried for four years to improve their customer experience to no avail. If you do, you add to your woes.

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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. Effective executives learn to balance the tension between going slow and moving fast by studying the context of their choices. And to what end?

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Seth's Blog: Most people, most of the time (the perfect crowd fallacy)

Seth Godin Blog

The complete list of online retailers. Studying entrepreneurship without doing it » March 25, 2013. The myth of ebooks is that now that anyone can publish, enormous numbers of people will use this new platform to create countless numbers of new classics. In fact, most self-published ebooks just aren't very good.

eBook 48