Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 18, 2022

They shackle them with golden handcuffs or maybe they beat them down with unkind words. They believe you are going to lead them in the right direction. Maybe even help them achieve their dreams. Sadly, too many leaders believe their people are there to work for them and them alone. These leaders are not dream releasers.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 17, 2014

Posted in Leadership Development [link] “Golden handcuffs” is a phrase used to describe a system of financial incentives designed to keep key employees from leaving a company. She is a co-author of The Character-Based Leader, as well as the author of the Random Acts of Leadership blog.

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 30, 2010

Leadership and Sustainability: voice your opinion → Fast Friday with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com (and P. On the flip side, people who I know who don’t love their jobs but make lots of money seem to spend a lot of time throwing around words like “golden handcuffs” and seem to be perpetually stressed and unhappy.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 15, 2013

Every manager should seek to know the stay/leave propensity of his or her subordinates and certainly that of top performers. While true knowledge of others’ intentions is unknowable and unpredictable opportunities arise, there are artificial retention mechanisms and observable signs that together suggest an individual’s inclination.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

This employee shareholding system is referred to within Huawei as the “silver handcuff.” ” It is a system that is different from the more common stock option arrangement, which is often termed the “golden handcuff.” As he puts it, he wants everyone to act like the boss.

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