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September 25, 2023

MainStreet Macro: Chasing Growth

This week, in the absence of a video, I’d like to set a scene with words. Imagine you’re a hero, tracking a villain dead-set on mayhem. The fate of the economy hangs on your every move. Fraught with more tension than The Dark Knight, central banks around the world have been doing just that, turning their laser sights on interest rates as they try to chase down high inflation. Every decision carries high stakes, with the threat of a slowing economy menacing at every turn. It’s a fact that many economies don’t just fall into recession; they’re driven there by central banks that hike rates too aggressively.
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What the Past Won’t Tell Us About the Pandemic “Recession”

by ADPRI Team

Early on, it has become clear that the magnitude and speed of job loss are greater than any recession we’ve experienced in modern U.S. history. The million-dollar question on most people's minds is how much of this job loss will come back?
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Evolution of Pay Work Status and Payroll

by ADPRI Team

This survey was conducted with nearly 7000 employers and employees across the globe to assess how they view pay, what's important, how payment methods are changing and what the future might look like.
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What Drives Global Engagement?

by Marcus Buckingham

There is a tendency to place a lot of value on talent acquisition within organizations, but in doing so we bypass a more important question: how can we get the most out of the people that already work for us?
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The Business Case for Strengths

by Marcus Buckingham

It’s the single most important driver of team performance – and yet, less than 2 out of 10 employees strongly agree that they get to use their strengths at work every day.
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Data Fluency Series #5: Case Study

by Marcus Buckingham

Let’s show you what good data looks like, and what we went through to get it to see what happens on the world’s most productive teams.
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Data Fluency Series #4: Do Current HR Tools Give Us Good Data?

by Marcus Buckingham

We know that a good HR tool will have reliability, variation, and validity. Let's look at a few common HR tools and see how they stack up.
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Data Fluency Series #3: Variation and Validity

by Marcus Buckingham

If you are using a tool to measure people data, there are two things it has to do: It has to reveal actual variation in the real world, and that variation has to validly relate to something else.
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Data Fluency Series #2: How to Get Reliable Ratings Data

by Marcus Buckingham

How do we know that the people data we’re collecting is reliable? How do we know that it’s measuring what we say it’s measuring? And can you really measure something like performance in another person?
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