Stabilizing Your Workforce Amid Layoffs
How can organizations make sure that the inherent uncertainty in today's environment and associated redundancies at their own companies aren't disruptive? They must first understand what employees look...
View ArticleBuilding a Talent Machine
Companies that lead the world in growth have a relentless focus on talent. They're run by executives who have created high-performing operating systems that name the right people as managers and leaders.
View ArticleYour Succession Plan Is a Bust
Just naming the new CEO isn't an effective plan. That's replacement planning. In this conversation, a Gallup executive tells how to create a succession plan that makes your company stronger.
View ArticleLose Your Just-Good-Enough Managers
Mentor, train, and develop your managers, says Raad Al-Saady, an executive at one of Saudi Arabia's biggest companies. But if they don't improve, neither will the company.
View ArticleHow Family-Run Businesses Should Choose Future Leaders
These enterprises face a big problem: Who will run their companies in the future? Those that neglect formal succession-planning processes and leadership development risk making bad decisions.
View ArticleThe Best Gallup Business Journal Articles of 2012
Restoring confidence in banks. Managing your workforce amid intense uncertainty. Making government more efficient. These are among the most urgent and timely topics the GBJ covered during 2012.
View ArticleHow to Tell High-Potential Leaders They're Special
Here's the best way to let emerging leaders know about their potential -- and your plans to develop it -- without alienating their colleagues. The key: Use objective and public criteria.
View ArticleExperiences That Help Emerging Leaders Grow
Not every kind of experience makes emerging leaders better -- and the most valuable kinds are rare. Here's how to identify and create breakthrough development experiences for high-potential leaders.
View ArticleYour Employees Are Either Patriots or Mercenaries
So says Nationwide's CEO -- and great executives know how to inspire both. Here, Steve Rasmussen tells how his company builds workplace engagement among all kinds of employees.
View ArticleWhy Leaders' Thinking Is Often Wrong
You can't always trust your brain to make the right calls -- and you can't trust your gut either. It's much better to develop solid data and use them to inform your decisions.
View ArticleLeadership Is More Than the C-Suite
Companies shouldn't assume that "leadership" only applies to their chief officers. In fact, businesses must find the right people to fill four distinct types of leadership roles.
View ArticleThe Best Gallup Business Journal Articles of 2013
How engaged workplaces drive job creation. Lowering healthcare and absenteeism costs. And: Is college worth it? These are among the topics the GBJ covered during the past 12 months.
View ArticleBridging the Leadership Gap in Asia
Engagement is alarmingly low among senior leaders in the region. If they're going to grow in the next decade, Asian companies must develop an effective leadership pipeline now.
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