Jim Harter

Culture Shock: A book review by Bob Morris

June 3, 2023

Culture Shock: An unstoppable force has changed how we work and live. Gallup’s solution to the biggest leadership issue of our time. Jim Clifton and Jim Harter Gallup Press (May 2023) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing…

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How to Build a Strengths-Based Culture

May 21, 2023

In Chapter 26 of their latest book, Culture Shock, Jim Clifton and Jim Harter observe, “Very few organizations in the world can say their culture is strengths-based. This is a missed opportunity. Organizations with strengths-based cultures greatly outperform their competition…

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Everyone Deserves a Great Manager: A book review by Bob Morris

October 18, 2019

Everyone Deserves a Great Manager: The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team Scott Miller with Todd Davis and Victoria Roos Olsson Simon & Schuster (October 2019) “So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for…

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The 12 Elements of Great Management

August 21, 2019

Peter Drucker once observed, “So much of what we call management is making it very difficult for other people to get work done.” Alas, that is true of many (most?) organizations, whatever their size and nature may be. In It’s…

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The gold standard for leadership and management resources

June 29, 2019

The Gallup Organization was created in 1958 by George Gallup, whose name worldwide is all but synonymous with public opinion polling. Although the Gallup Poll, which monitors political and economic trends, conducted since 1935, remains its most prominent enterprise, the…

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It’s the Manager: A book review by Bob Morris

May 7, 2019

Mark Fortier mark@fortierpr.com Melissa Connors melissa@fortierpr.com It’s the Manager: Gallup finds the quality of managers and team leaders is the single biggest factor in your organization’s long-term success. Jim Clifton and Jim Harter Gallup Press (May 2019) Organizational defects “aren’t…

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According to Gallup: 39 Organizations Create Exceptional Workplaces

July 31, 2018

Here is an excerot from an article by Ed O’Boyle and Jim Harter in which they discuss Gallup’s analytics that reveal only 15% of worldwide workers came to work today engaged and ready to maximize their performance. And yet, a few exceptional organizations…

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Bullshit Jobs: A book review by Bob Morris

June 25, 2018

Bull Shit Jobs: A Theory David Graeber Simon & Schuster (May 2018) So many jobs — too many jobs — whose patron saint is Sisyphus To what does the title of this book refer? According to David Graeber, a recent…

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The Worldwide Employee Engagement Crisis

September 27, 2017

  Here is an excerpt from an article by Annamarie Mann and Jim Harter for the Gallup Business Journal. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and learn more about the firm, please click here. * * *…

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Gallup: State of the American Manager

April 25, 2015

In 2014, Gallup data revealed that only one in 10 people possess high talent to manage, and that companies fail to choose the appropriate manager with the right talent 82% of the time. Gallup’s latest report provides an in-depth look…

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