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If You Want to Motivate Employees, Stop Trusting Your Instincts

Harvard Business

Few topics have received more attention in talent management than motivation, defined as the deliberate attempt to influence employees’ behaviors with the goal of enhancing their performance, and in turn their organizational effectiveness. ” A global survey of more than 50 Fortune 1000 companies and 1.2

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Research: Are Clients Loyal to Your Firm, or the People in It?

Harvard Business

Employee turnover can be a big challenge for companies. But it creates a unique problem for professional services firms, which have to worry about employees taking clients with them if they leave. Small business owners and entrepreneurs also focus on increasing their client retention rates should their employees leave.

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The Case for Trade, and Why American Leaders Need to Make It

Harvard Business

Moreover, businesses have done a poor job explaining to employees how trade contributes to job creation and better pay. That failure will have implications for other critical topics on which the U.S. Until recently, when President Obama began speaking up for TPP, his administration had drifted on trade. If the U.S.