Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

If you want to raise the standards of any group, improving the top of the heap isn't nearly as effective as focusing your effort on the base instead. Simple example: Getting a Prius to go from 50 miles per gallon to 55 miles per gallon isn't nearly as important as getting SUVs to go from 10 miles per gallon to 15. There are two reasons for this. The first is that there are a lot more SUVs than Priuses.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Talent Management Questions to Test If You are On the Right Track. 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. The Goal of Talent Management. Talent management is no longer about providing isolated and unconnected recruiting, training, employee relations and retention programs.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Teacept/iStock. Technical developments tend to grab the headlines in health care. Predictive analytics , telemedicine , electronic health records — technology is rightly seen as a transformative force in health delivery. But it’s not the only one. At Rotterdam Eye Hospital, hospital administrators have found that through their ongoing design-thinking program , lower-tech measures can also improve health care.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Kenneth Andersson for HBR. I wish he would just get fired. How is it that rational, good, understanding, kind, collaborative people like you and me can get so triggered by certain colleagues’ work performance that our minds race with how we want them to get out of our lives and work — in any way possible? We come up with long diatribes of the million and one reasons why they need to get their act together — or, better yet, disappear.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Chris Rogers/Getty Images. Globally, many leading organizations have introduced workplace policies to enable flexible work, recognizing its benefits for staff retention, morale, commitment, diversity, recruitment, and being an employer of choice. But despite employee demand and some high-profile examples, it has proved harder to get broader adoption of those policies.

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