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HBR Guide to Retaining Your Best People
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HBR Guide to Retaining Your Best People

by Harvard Business Review
August 2025
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
4h 11m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Chapter 26 A Strong Purpose Can Make Your Company a Magnet for Talent

by Claudio Fernández-Aráoz

I was sitting in an elegant bar in one of Switzerland’s finest hotels, watching the snow fall peacefully against the lights of Zürich and agonizing over a professional predicament that could change the course of my career.

A few months earlier, I had left a promising career with McKinsey in Europe to return to my native Argentina and join the local office of the executive search firm Egon Zehnder. Impressed by a five-day tour of its offices in London, Paris, Brussels, Copenhagen, and Zürich; its three pillars of purpose (“clients first, quality in all we do, and a unique partnership spirit”); and my final meeting with Egon Zehnder himself, who outlined ...

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