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Create a Growth Culture, Not a Performance-Obsessed One

Harvard Business

It’s no wonder that so many C-Suite leaders are focused on how to build higher performance cultures. The irony, we’ve found, is that building a culture focused on performance may not be the best, healthiest, or most sustainable way to fuel results. Instead, it may be more effective to focus on creating a culture of growth.

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Finding Joy as a Manager — Even on Bad Days

Harvard Business

3) Sprinkle gratitude and joy like confetti: Actively recognize and celebrate contributions to build a supportive and cohesive team culture. 4) Fuel your joy: Maintain positive reminders and practice self-compassion to sustain energy and enthusiasm in your role.

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Research: How Family Motivates People to Do Their Best Work

Harvard Business

Family is one of the most important things in most people’s lives, across cultures and geographies. Instead, in the past, family has been mostly seen as competing with work for an employee’s finite resources, like their time and energy. Yet, the idea that family can be motivational at work has been overlooked.

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How Women at the Top Can Renew Their Mental Energy

Harvard Business

At the center is managing your mental energy: How to gain it, maintain it, and not drain it. Part of the answer lies in realizing that not all sources of energy are equal. ” A third one found energy in literature and in following new trends in a totally different field. Second, indulge your inner hedonist.

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How Starbucks’s Culture Brings Its Strategy to Life

Harvard Business

In most organizations, culture and strategy tend to be discussed in separate conversations. Executives know that culture is important and that a negative culture can hurt company performance, but they often don’t know what to do about it. But cultures are complicated, with hundreds of disparate elements.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

Booz & Company Interview and Culture. Where prestige, pay, exit opportunities and culture are concerned, Booz & Company ranks number 4 behind MBB. Energy & Utilities. BOOZ & COMPANY CULTURE. The core values of the Booz & Company culture include: Individuality. We want you to nail it. Automotive.

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Bates White Economic Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Though antitrust remains Bates White’s largest practice area, the firm is recognized as an expert in environmental product liability, healthcare and life sciences, energy, and finance. BATES WHITE CULTURE. Bates Whites is also deeply committed to creating an environment that fosters a diverse workforce and inclusive culture.