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The Downside of Hiring Lower Wage Workers

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / Employee Engagement / Interviewing / Leadership & Management / Performance / Strategy / No Comments / July 21, 2015
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-36052328-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); setTimeout(“_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ’15_seconds’, ‘read’])???,15000); I recently came across a very interesting article in the Harvard Business Review. In this article, the author

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What We Can Learn from the 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / Employee Engagement / Leadership & Management / Organisation Culture / Performance / Strategy / Team Building / No Comments / July 7, 2015
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-36052328-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); setTimeout(“_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ’15_seconds’, ‘read’])???,15000); It was 1986. It was a cold January morning at Cape Canaveral. Engineers had been frantically preparing for

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One Thing You Can Do to Improve Team Performance

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / Employee Engagement / Leadership & Management / Organisation Culture / Performance / Team Building / No Comments / June 23, 2015
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-36052328-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); setTimeout(“_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ’15_seconds’, ‘read’])???,15000); Why do most teams and organisations under-perform? Even if you hired all the right people into your

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How to be a Better Manager – 4 Things You Can Do Today

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / Employee Engagement / Leadership & Management / Personality / Team Building / No Comments / June 16, 2015
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-36052328-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); setTimeout(“_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ’15_seconds’, ‘read’])???,15000); It does not matter if you are a team manager leading a team of 5 or a

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3 Secrets to High Performance Teams

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / Employee Engagement / Leadership & Management / Organisation Culture / Performance / Strategy / Team Building / No Comments / June 2, 2015
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-36052328-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); setTimeout(“_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ’15_seconds’, ‘read’])???,15000); This article first appeared in the the HR & Education Section of Singapore Business Review portal on

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What HR & Hiring Managers Can Learn From Warren Buffett & Jim Rogers on Hiring the Right People

by Steven Lock / Blogs / Interviewing / Leadership & Management / Strategy / No Comments / April 21, 2015
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Do You Know How Your Leadership Styles Affect Your Team’s Performance?

by Steven Lock / Blogs / Employee Engagement / Leadership & Management / Performance / Team Building / No Comments / April 14, 2015
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-36052328-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); setTimeout(“_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ’15_seconds’, ‘read’])???,15000); Do you know how your Leadership Styles affect your team’s performance? This is a question that stumps most

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