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QUIET POWER: Why outspoken leaders are not necessarily the best

In a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article Do you hate your boss? Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries shares a global survey where 70 percent of employees are not engaged at work and they did not have anything nice to say about their bosses.

Gallup research reports that companies fail to choose the candidate with the right management talent for the job a staggering 82 percent of the time.

When managers account for 70 percent of variance in employee engagement scores and study after study shows that engagement impacts productivity, turnover and profitability,

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