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The answer may determine the success of your lean implementation. If it is ‘yes,’ what are you prepared to do?...More

If you aren't nurturing your high-potential employees, you're missing out on an opportunity to help boost your bottom line. You're also in danger of drying up your leadership pipeline....More

It doesn’t start until somebody does something differently. And it doesn’t stick until nearly everybody is doing something differently....More

There is much advice in the business world, and beyond, about improving decision making. It is broad and complex, and tackling the challenge is much like taking on culture change. But what specifically can lean teach us about decision-making?...More

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Jun 28th by a 5-4 vote to let the individual mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) stand. Immediately following, a CEO of one of the nation's largest insurance companies was asked if people can expect their premiums to go up as this law is implemented. The answer was yes. So what can employers do to protect themselves from the inevitable?...More

There is no denying that we have learned a lot about performance management from B.F. Skinner. His experiments, and the work of those who followed him, gave us an insight into how to change behavior. We started to think of behavior as having a reason or influence, and we began to understand how certain environmental and organizational factors could either encourage (reinforce) that behavior or discourage (punish) it. This thinking has impacted everything from corporate communications and organizational design to motivational strategies, such as rewards and incentives....More

Continued from Part 1:Leaders and Risk: A Critical Priority for the CEO Risk-management strategies only work when the following factors come into play:...More

Firms must embrace a new level of employee empowerment to fully leverage social media....More

Skilled worker shortage hampers manufacturers' product-development activities amid increasing pressure to be more innovative....More