Economy, Strategy & Finance Data Reactions

To grow and innovate, organizations have to come up with creative ideas. At the employee level, creativity results from a combination of expertise, motivation, and thinking skills. At the team level, it results from the synergy between team members, which allows the group to produce something greater than the sum of its parts.

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?

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!

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.