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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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What You’ll Learn

Today’s managers spend countless hours recruiting and training skilled employees. They depend on these workers to produce stellar results and push the company forward. But more and more, leaders are watching their talented workers leave for other opportunities. Such a loss has high costs for businesses—not just financially, but in reduced productivity and decreased morale. How do you retain your best people?

A job is no longer just about a paycheck, and simply offering more money and better benefits isn’t enough to keep your employees. Work has become personal, and your retention efforts need to be as well. Leaders and managers must understand each person’s individual strengths and needs so they can offer them growth, opportunity, ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9798892790895