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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

In contrast, today’s scarcest resource is your human capital, as measured by the time, talent and energy of your workforce. Difference-making talent is also scarce. Finding, developing, and retaining this talent is hard — so much so that the business press refers to a “war” for talent.

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It’s Time to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business

And talented Millennial employees are voting with their feet by leaving laggard companies behind. Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics.

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How Our Company Connected Our Strategy to Sustainability Goals

Harvard Business

Our Climate Commitment is one way we help solve the unsustainable demand for energy resources and its impact on the environment. Companies with a strong sustainability program and culture attract and retain better talent who desire a sense of purpose and contribution to a greater good. million gallons of water.

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Like It or Not, You Are Always Leading by Example

Harvard Business

How talent management is changing. A managing partner at a global consulting firm makes a point of coming to the office straight from red-eye flights and radiating productive energy. Examples that stress talent development signal radically different priorities than disciplining malefactors or displaying kindness during family crises.

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3 Talent Management Consulting Tips to Keep Top Talent Performing

LSA Global

Talent management consulting experts know that winning talent management strategies are about more than just recruiting the top talent you need to thrive. Unfortunately, too many organizations focus so much of their energy on competing for talent that they neglect to develop that talent once those new employees have been hired.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

The dynamic nature of agile initiatives also requires that executives devise new ways of keeping everything aligned and maintaining enterprise-level visibility, for example, via widely accessible dashboards that connect metrics across the company and link individual team metrics to aggregated company-level metrics.

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3 Talent Management Consulting Tips to Keep Top Talent Performing

LSA Global

Talent management consulting experts know that winning talent management strategies are about more than just recruiting the top talent you need to thrive. Unfortunately, too many organizations focus so much of their energy on competing for talent that they neglect to develop that talent once those new employees have been hired.

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