With roughly 10,000 Baby Boomers reaching retirement age every day, businesses have begun to worry about the future of leadership in their companies. Retiring leadership means potentially losing the relationships they have built, the knowledge they have obtained, and the experience in their fields...
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As any company grows, expanding beyond the shores of one’s own country often becomes a goal. But while there will always be cultural and practical barriers (e.g., physical distance, language) to international collaboration, one of the biggest challenges can often be management styles. It is not...
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Superior managers breed superior company productivity – and vice versa. Repeated studies bear out this fact. A Stanford University study looked at 4,000 companies around the world and concluded that, “improved management practice is one of the most effective ways for a firm to outperform its...
Topics: management style, management teams, how to increase productivity
It’s been a tough couple of years for both the unemployed and the employed, and that includes executives in the workplace. A slow global economy has caused many companies to try to “do more with less” by stretching key executive’s workload farther and farther. The result, says leading...
Topics: workplace productivity, culture of retention, employee engagement, retention, performance, management style
Executive search professionals, human resource executives, and hiring managers constantly debate the value of reference checks. While some believe references paint only the most positive aspects of a candidate’s work experience, others understand that past relationships, management style, and...
Topics: hiring, employment, reference check questions, management style
