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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x The problem is leadership on autopilot. We chase short-term wins. The problem is leadership on autopilot.

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Performance Appraisal & Rewards in Response to COVID-19

HR Digest

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Spanish flu).

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Shaping Performance & Rewards in Response to COVID-19

HR Digest

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Spanish flu).

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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma.

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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives.

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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. Pharmaceuticals. tax jurisdiction.

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Hiring and Managing in Turbulent Times

Harvard Business Review

His horizon was exceedingly long-term. Leadership is changing — fast. The second World War had left business slow and finances strained. Then came the September 11, 2001, attacks, followed by fully-fledged economic crises in the U.S. His ability to look back is what enabled him to see way forward so clearly.