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Breitfelder: Research shows roughly 70% of new corporate strategies fail
“The failure rate of most new corporate strategies is roughly 70% in all of the studies that have been done on this.”
Breitfelder: Only 20% of workers report being highly engaged in their jobs
“All those studies showed that when you measure employee engagement, which is a self-assessment that virtually every company on earth Does these surveys where you're asking someone, are you not engaged in your job, mildly engaged in your job, okay, or highly en…”
Breitfelder: Employee engagement surveys show outcomes correlate with the manager
“You know, if you look at employee engagement surveys,
Everything correlates with the manager.”
Breitfelder: Google found moving top coders to bad managers collapses performance
“They ran studies where at Google there's a project called Project Oxygen where their hypothesis was maybe managers are so bad we should just eliminate the role. So let's test what are the characteristics of a great manager and does it even matter? And they fou…”
Breitfelder: Harvard Business School offered zero HR classes twenty years ago
“But in that era of HBS, and I graduated twenty-odd years ago, there weren't any HR classes. HR was not seen as a profession anyone from HBS would ever go into. And HR functions had been positioned as administrative, not strategic.”