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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

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Ignore Emotional Intelligence at Your Own Risk

Harvard Business Review

Working as an executive search consultant at Egon Zehnder, I’ve personally led more than 500 senior appointments and been involved in many more, interviewing more than 20,000 candidates. People are hired for IQ and experience and fired for failing to manage themselves and others well.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Just ask the executives at Uber, Twitter, Fitbit, and Snapchat.) Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory.