HR Digest

MAY 1, 2024

Understanding employee benefits and being generous with the job perks are key components of retaining employees and companies that fail in this regard will start to see high turnover rates the moment the job market settles down. Image: Freepik Understanding Employee Benefits—What Do They Involve??

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HR Digest

MAY 11, 2024

It determined that non-compete clauses were an unfair method of competition and violated Section 5 of the FTC act, “inhibiting efficient matching between workers and employers” and negatively impacting competitive conditions in the market. Why Should You Move Away from Noncompetes?

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 15, 2024

The meeting ends with no decision made, an hour or more wasted, and the team’s morale drained from their inability to act. Let’s say your team is discussing a marketing opportunity with some newly available funds. But it happens all the time and teams waste too much valuable time and energy talking past one another.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Without trust, you get nowhere.&# – Jack Trout “Everything in marketing points to the reality that the profitable companies are those that have earned the confidence of their public. Followers trust it’s the right direction.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Six Strategies for Boosting Morale by Kevin Eikenberry on November 1, 2010 in Leadership , Learning A participant from a workshop I led several years ago posed a question to me last week. I know morale is important!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. But agile innovation teams work better than current approaches, and agile principles hold that making immediate progress beats waiting for perfect solutions before starting out. The energy, commitment, and collaboration among team members was a revelation.

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Bright minds spend considerable time and energy drawing up ambitious plans for things like market share growth and increased revenue generation — only to watch staff put out fires all day rather than work on the strategy which will prevent most fires in the first place. They just don’t do it.”.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

When you personalize the topic, situation or negative energy, you make it harder to respond in a more positive way. You may take it personally or find the situation so important that you can’t pull yourself out of it. However, the reality is most of the time others are far more focused on themselves and their issues than on you.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Transactional leadership might be a motivator when money and better benefits are available, but today’s climate seems to lend itself more to transformational leadership where a caring leadership can stimulate innovation, creative thinking, and productivity. How to SPARK employee engagement in your organization: S et High Goals.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

As we face a fresh challenge from the invasion of Ukraine and the energy crisis this has exacerbated, research from Chicago Booth provides a timely reminder that there is both a moral and a practical reason for supporting those low-skilled workers. When this happened, the ripple effect throughout the economy was significant.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

By the way, employee performance and morale at Wal-Mart is near all time lows… Diversity mandates just don’t work… Talent begets talent and blending occurs naturally when good decisions are made for the right reasons. Your comment summarizes exactly how things should work as opposed to how they often do. LeRoyD Amen!

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. Fostering innovation. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Yet although Silicon Valley has mastered the art of building technology companies, it hasn't yet developed the moral compass to figure out which companies are worth building. The emergence of "Social Entrepreneurship" attempts to fill this moral void by refocusing energy and resources on important social problems.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

He challenged the current form of capitalism and made a powerful case for tackling climate change and inequality on moral and economic grounds (I’ve summarized his paper here and here ). The Pope is, at least nominally, the moral leader of 1.2 The vision of an all-renewable energy system comes into focus.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

According to a new study published by the Center for Talent Innovation, Latinos at Work: Unleashing the Power of Culture , most Latinos in the U.S. Those who expend a great deal of energy repressing themselves are also more likely to say that they are being promoted quickly. trillion within the next four years. .”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Many managers proudly describe the team-building initiatives they've pursued to create a sense of staff cohesion and morale. Such executives base their efforts to build team strength on the answers to two fundamental questions: Where do I need to spend my time and focus my energies? Don't get me wrong.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. The story of the firing spread (as it always does) throughout the company, morale slipped, and the CMO never completely trusted his boss again. Because innovation requires it. That guy’s an idiot.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

You can’t drive your vehicle on an empty tank, nor can you lead your life or teams with zero energy. Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. My energy levels are based on the foods and beverages I consume. I’m not talking about surface level excitement or energy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

And I predict that leaders who get the whole story, and act on it, will reap unexpectedly better workplace morale in 2012, despite all the uncertainty and volatility of the global economic realities. I also think something else is going on, and leaders need to pay attention to this subtle but notable shift in employee energy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

I’ve met so many leaders who are brilliant when it comes to product design and capital structure but who treat the people in business as an afterthought, a matter of sound administration as opposed to daring innovation. That’s why the best cultures and the most effective leaders keep learning as fast as the world is changing.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

2) WHAT are you applying your energy and resources against? They must be bold in their actions, willing to take calculated risks together that will have the greatest potential to achieve major, market?shifting It is your moral compass to LeaderShape at every level. 3) WHERE are you going? 4) WHEN do you plan to arrive?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly. The production and design departments will complain that the marketing and sales departments aren’t selling enough of their high-quality products, and vice versa. Be a full-time leader.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

The time, energy, and cost associated with acquiring a customer are substantial, the benefits of retaining customers are considerable, and the costs associated with customer churn are significant. There is in fact a point where “bad customers&# can erode margins, negatively affect morale, or even tarnish a brand. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly. The production and design departments will complain that the marketing and sales departments aren’t selling enough of their high-quality products, and vice versa. Be a full-time leader.

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Cooper Objective Incentives Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The Energy Challenge. Today, Seth Godin examines the challenge of marketing to the world's poor. Its success will depend on the ability to create a market for the idea. Acumen creates these markets using patient capital. As a result, it's extremely difficult to sell innovation to this consumer. Triple the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For anyone with a pension linked to market performance, that is a good thing. The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. Today, we see growing interest in new business benchmarks and in potential breakthrough materials and forms of energy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But as I’ve done for the last 4 years, I’ll attempt to summarize some of the latest stories about the big environmental and social pressures on business, and how some innovative companies are dealing with them. The clean tech markets keep growing fast: three of the world’s biggest economies — the U.S.,

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. We have been subjected to the second longest bear market in history, the longest being that of the Great Depression. The stock market is down 25%. Employee Morale and Output. Public pension funds nationwide lost at least $6.4

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

Here's what I see when I look not just at the surface, but deep inside the heart of the economy today: Instead of an "energy industry," I see a resource addiction that saps money and preserves self-destructive expectations. An even tougher one: does the economy we have today value such a life? Does it help us create one?

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