Productivity & Trade Briefs
2015
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What Happens When an Interim CEO Takes Over?
June 12 | Walter Frick, Editor, Harvard Business Review | Comments (0)Twitter chief Dick Costolo is leaving his post in two weeks, and co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey will be taking the reins as interim CEO. It’s not the company’s first leadership shakeup, but unlike previous ones, it’s a response to sluggish performance, rather than to rapid growth. So what happens now?
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Interview with Brian Souza, Author of The Weekly Coaching Conversation, and Free getAbstract Book Download
June 03 | David Forry, Marketing Manager, getAbstract | Comments (0)With The Weekly Coaching Conversation about to be rereleased, getAbstract caught up with Brian in an interview. GetAbstract was also able to secure Human Capital Exchange users with access to a complimentary online read of his newly revised book!
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Making Sense of Zappos’ War on Managers
May 20 | Gianpiero Petriglieri, M.D., Visiting Associate Professor, Business Administration, Harvard Business School | Comments (0)In the early 1980s, Ralph Stayer sent a long memo and a $200 check to every employee of his family business. Since taking over as CEO, sales had increased fifteen-fold. Profits were up 150%. Everything, he had resolved, had to change.
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The End Of Power: A Look Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s First Pick For His “A Year Of Books” Project
April 28 | David Forry, Marketing Manager, getAbstract | Comments (0)Zuckerberg kicked off his A Year of Books project with Moisés Naím’s The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be. The reason for this choice?
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Google Adds Benefits, Walmart Cuts Them; Oddly, the Logic Is the Same
February 13 | Peter Cappelli, Director, Center for Human Resources & Professor, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania | Comments (0)Walmart’s recent decision to cut healthcare benefits for its part-time employees obviously cuts their labor costs for a group of employees who are not that important for the company to retain. Whether they can afford to pay for it is another question, but that’s no longer Walmart’s problem.
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Teach For America: How a Core Purpose Helps to Engage Employees and Extend Impact
February 09 | Rebecca L. Ray, PhD, Former Executive Vice President, Human Capital, The Conference Board | Alex Parkinson, Former Communications Institute Co-Leader, The Conference Board | Comments (1)Highly engaged organizations emphasize a core purpose that does not entail mere financial or operational objectives. These organizations create a common understanding among employees that they play a role in creating value for the entire community.
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Retirement Planning And Long-Term Care – Can You Influence the Future?
February 05 | Anna M. Rappaport | Comments (0)This blog serves as a follow-up on my recent post: Retirement Planning And Long-Term Care— The Impact on Your Employees and Workplace. This article deals with the challenges to the long-term care system and ideas for the future.
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What It Will Take to Change the Culture of Wall Street
February 04 | Steven G. Mandis, Adjunct Professor, Columbia Business School | Comments (0)Financial interdependence is important as a self-regulator … leaders should disproportionately and jointly share in fines, settlements, and other consequences out of their compensation plan or their stock. Meaningful restrictions on leaders’ ability to sell or hedge shares should be imposed.
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Clay Christensen on Peter Drucker
January 28 | Julia Kirby, Editor, Harvard Business Review | Comments (0)On the eve of the 6th Annual Global Drucker Forum in Vienna, where Professor Christensen will provide a keynote address, I asked for a preview of the territory he will cover. The following is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation.
