Learning Adds Up To Revenue Growth

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Jennifer J. Salopek

Driven by the employment motto, "From campus to partner," employee learning and development at Grant Thornton is guided by a stair-step framework that includes all online and in-person offerings. The senior managers, all CPAs, work at Chicago-based Grant Thornton LLP, a... More »

A Leadership Tool for Smart Thinking

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Pierre Dube

Paula is a shift supervisor for a high-tech industry. Prior to her daily brief with her crew, she must sift through data on industry updates, changes in the work schedule, current plant performance, and a host of other documents to determine what to provide her crew so ... More »

ROI: The Report of My Death Is an Exaggeration

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John Mattox

What do Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, and return-on-investment (ROI) have in common? All have been reported dead, prematurely. Twain was quite resilient, and reporting was so inaccurate in the 19th century that he was reported deceased twice! Almost a century later, rep... More »

Hamburger University Turns 50: 90,000 Served

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Pat Galagan

In 1961, Fred Turner, McDonald's former senior chairman and Ray Kroc's first grill man, founded Hamburger University in the basement of a McDonald's restaurant in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, making McDonald's the first restaurant organization to open a full-time traini... More »