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How to Keep Your Star Performers in Trying Times
Employee retention Best PracticeWhen the economy is slow and unemployment rates are high, it’s easy to think your employees will happily stay put in their current jobs. But that’s a dangerous assumption. Research shows that voluntary turnover rates increase as consumer confidence builds. This means, as a manager, you need to figure out ways to retain your top […] -
Creating a Happier Workplace Is Possible - and Worth It
Global Business Digital ArticleToo many of us are disconnected, disengaged, and bored at work. -
Make Your Company a Talent Factory
Leadership development Magazine ArticleStop losing out on lucrative business opportunities because you don’t have the talent to develop them. -
How to Help Superstar Employees Fulfill Their Potential
Organizational Development Digital ArticleAn analysis of 3,000 applications to Harvard Business School's High Potentials Leadership Program reveals common challenges and opportunities. -
What Happens When Teams Fight Burnout Together
Employee retention Digital ArticleBased on an experiment at EY. -
The Value of Belonging at Work
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt's good for people - and for the bottom line. -
How to Keep Your Top Talent
Employee retention Magazine ArticleOne-quarter of the highest-potential people in your company intend to jump ship within the year. Here’s what you’re doing wrong. -
Goldman Sachs Decides Restructuring Work Is Possible, After All
Employee retention Digital ArticleBut will their work-life reforms go far enough? -
Your Organization Needs a Learning Ecosystem
Developing employees Digital ArticleIt will help you keep great talent from walking away. -
Stop Offering Career Ladders. Start Offering Career Portfolios.
Developing employees Digital ArticleCompanies need a more holistic approach to developing talent. -
Think Task, Not Time
Employee retention Digital ArticleNot long ago, I spoke with the CFO of a major New York-based corporation. Clearly frustrated, he explained that everyone in his department worked 60 hours a week or more – they always had and, as far as he was concerned, they always would. But they were having no luck finding young employees willing to […] -
Should You Try to Convince a Star Employee to Stay?
Employee retention Digital ArticleSometimes it’s better to let them go. -
Tell Your Whole Story in an Interview
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYour career didn't start with your first job. -
The Everyday Ways One Leader Helps Employees Bust the Status Quo
Leadership development Big IdeaAriel Investments president Mellody Hobson models rebel behavior to get her staff to question everything and everyone—including herself. -
Research: The Benefits of a Pet-Friendly Workplace
Compensation and benefits Digital ArticlePlus guidance on what to do when some employees prefer a pet-free workplace. -
Go Ahead: Ask Your Employees If They're Happy
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIt can boost their satisfaction and performance. -
Flextime Is Declining, But "Flex Around the Edges" Is Up
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYou can sneak off to that afternoon doctor's appointment, just don't ask for a sabbatical. -
The Container Store’s CEO on Finding and Keeping Front-Line Talent
Employee retention Digital ArticleHow the retailer scouts, hires, and retains its people. -
Why Middle Managers Are So Unhappy
Managing people Digital ArticleThe problem is often their bosses.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Talent (with bonus article "Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy" by Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill, and Robert J. Thomas)
24.95View Details Invest in your most valuable resource: your people. Top talent is hard to come by. And seeing your stars walk out the door is painful--and expensive.... -
Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley (C) (Abridged)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details A year after Rob Parson's manager decided to postpone Parson's promotion, Parson's new manager Gary Stuart faces the decision of promotion again. Stuart... -
Honor Foundation: Accessing Special Operations Talent
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In 2020, The Honor Foundation (THF), a nonprofit dedicated to helping U.S. military special operators to transition into civilian careers, was facing... -
MacAfee Building Supply: Improving Performance Across Retail Stores (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details MacAfee Building Supply, a distributor of building supplies and heating and plumbing products, had grown to become the largest company of its kind in... -
Marshall & Gordon: Designing an Effective Compensation System (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details CEO Kelly Browne wrestles with the design of a new compensation system to promote the collaboration and cross-selling necessary for supporting her firm's... -
Store24 (B): Service Quality and Employee Skills
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Brita Products Co.
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Clorox's Brita skillfully exploits a tide of water safety concerns, growing a home water (filtration) business from inception to a 15% U.S. household... -
Social Media Background Screening at Fama Technologies
Management Case Study11.95View Details Fama Technologies is an online screening company that uses AI to analyze job applicants' publicly available online content for signs of risk and culture... -
Brown Capital Management
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Set in July 2021, this case looks at several growth strategies under consideration at Brown Capital, the second-oldest Black-owned asset management firm... -
Shinsei Bank: Developing an Integrated Firm
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Tom Pedersen, newly appointed chief learning officer (CLO) of Shinsei Bank in Japan, pondered how he could facilitate development of an integrated culture... -
Why Should Anyone Work Here?: What It Takes to Create an Authentic Organization
30.00View Details Imagine designing the best company on earth to work for... What would that company be like? How would you build and sustain it? As a leader, you need... -
One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees? (Harvard Business Review Classics)
9.99View Details Imagine overseeing a workforce so motivated that employees relish more hours of work, shoulder more responsibility themselves; and favor challenging jobs... -
Massachusetts General Hospital: CABG Surgery (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Once the CABG care path is implemented and other care paths begun, hospital staff and administration examine the resulting data. Further methods of improving... -
Roller Coaster Ride: The Resignation of a Star
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Presents a detailed account of power dynamics that unfold in the firm when one of its best and brightest threatens to leave. Focuses on the dynamics of... -
Sales Force Training at Arrow Electronics (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In the mid-1980s, Arrow, the world's largest electronics distributor, implemented a college recruiting program to hire salespeople. The program was part... -
MacAfee Building Supply: Improving Performance Across Retail Stores (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details MacAfee Building Supply, a distributor of building supplies and heating and plumbing products, had grown to become the largest company of its kind in... -
Arck Systems (F)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The Arck Systems series of cases describes the dilemmas faced by a senior sales manager in determining a sales compensation plan at an enterprise software... -
Workforce Wisdom: How to Recruit, Hire, Coach, Motivate, and Retain Your Top Talent
Organizational Development Special Offer195.00View Details If great talent is hard to find, it's even harder to keep. This specially priced 7-volume set provides insights into what it takes to recruit, hire, motivate,... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership, Vol. 2 (Paperback + Ebook)
Leadership & Managing People Special Offer34.95View Details Stay on top of your leadership game. Leadership isn't something you're born with or gifted as a reward for an abundance of charisma; true leadership stems... -
The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay, and Meaning to Everyone's Work
32.00View Details From MIT professor and pre-eminent voice on Good Jobs comes a leadership guide for choosing excellence and providing good jobs that offer a living wage,...
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How to Keep Your Star Performers in Trying Times
Employee retention Best PracticeWhen the economy is slow and unemployment rates are high, it’s easy to think your employees will happily stay put in their current jobs. But that’s a dangerous assumption. Research shows that voluntary turnover rates increase as consumer confidence builds. This means, as a manager, you need to figure out ways to retain your top […] -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Talent (with bonus article "Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy" by Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill, and Robert J. Thomas)
24.95View Details Invest in your most valuable resource: your people. Top talent is hard to come by. And seeing your stars walk out the door is painful--and expensive.... -
Creating a Happier Workplace Is Possible - and Worth It
Global Business Digital ArticleToo many of us are disconnected, disengaged, and bored at work. -
Make Your Company a Talent Factory
Leadership development Magazine ArticleStop losing out on lucrative business opportunities because you don’t have the talent to develop them. -
How to Help Superstar Employees Fulfill Their Potential
Organizational Development Digital ArticleAn analysis of 3,000 applications to Harvard Business School's High Potentials Leadership Program reveals common challenges and opportunities. -
What Happens When Teams Fight Burnout Together
Employee retention Digital ArticleBased on an experiment at EY. -
The Value of Belonging at Work
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt's good for people - and for the bottom line. -
How to Keep Your Top Talent
Employee retention Magazine ArticleOne-quarter of the highest-potential people in your company intend to jump ship within the year. Here’s what you’re doing wrong. -
Goldman Sachs Decides Restructuring Work Is Possible, After All
Employee retention Digital ArticleBut will their work-life reforms go far enough?