Open bar. Decent venue. Branded swag. Polite conversation, then employees leaving in time to catch the nightly news. Everyone calls the company party a success because nothing went wrong, but nothing went right, either. Research identifies four factors that actually drive fun, connection, and employee loyalty at workplace celebrations. Most of them aren't what leaders spend money on. Here's what the data says, and the three things that separate the leaders who get it right.

Leaders succeed when they work simultaneously from the inside out and the outside in. Mobilized Vision, Business Model, People Strategy and Development, Operations, Technology and Automation, Strategy, Leadership, and Culture that eight domains that set the table for performance breakthroughs and sustainable growth. This article unpacks each one, explains why cross-domain alignment matters, and introduces the Wendworks Organizational Health Assessment as a tool for measuring

Ready for things to get back to normal? You're not alone, but the leaders who force a full return to the office may create the very "Turnover Tsunami" they fear. With Wollard and Shuck's antecedents of engagement, GM's "Work Appropriately" policy under Mary Barra, and Bob Dylan's reminder that the times they are a-changin', this article makes the research case for remote-work flexibility and the leadership posture required to retain talent on the other side of the pandemic.