Culture Matters
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Erica Salmon Byrne for the Compliance & Ethics Blog:
This is a lesson we have learned, re-learned, and will likely learn again. Regulators around the globe are increasingly calling on organizations to examine their culture. From Enron to Volkswagen, the Challenger to WorldCom – there are multiple examples of organizations with formal systems that say one thing and cultures that promote another. Read more |
Why Your Employees Are Always Putting Out Fires
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Elizabeth Doty for Strategy + Business:
Company leaders, consider the following questions: How many surprises have you dealt with this week? How many customer relationships have had to be rescued or late orders escalated? How many apologies delivered, numbers explained, or presentations redone? Read more |
Rethinking Employee Engagement
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Greg Barnett for Executive Street:
Gallup estimates that disengaged managers alone – so the people who are managing your employees – their disengagement costs somewhere between $77 billion and $96 billion annually. So it has a very negative impact on organizations both by a company-by-company basis and really on the economy as a whole. Read more |
How to Give 360-Degree Feedback to Different Personality Types
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Steffen Maier for Blogging4Jobs:
Personality has a huge impact in the workplace: from a first impression during the interview stage, to everyday interactions, to giving and receiving performance feedback. In one survey, 78% of respondents rated personality as the most important criteria when hiring someone, voting it even more important than a potential candidate’s skill set. Read more |
How to Make a Bad Decision
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Stephen J. Dubner for Freakonomics:
Some of our most important decisions are shaped by something as random as the order in which we make them. The gambler’s fallacy, as it’s known, affects loan officers, federal judges — and probably you too. How to avoid it? The first step is to admit just how fallible we all are. Read more |
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