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Executive Transitions Don’t Fail, Organisations Mismanage Them

Navid Nazemian, World’s #1 Executive Coach by CEO Today, explores why 40% of executive transitions fail and how organisations still treat leadership onboarding as routine administration rather than strategic risk management. In my experience, most organisations assume executive transitions are manageable, almost routine. A new leader is appointed, onboarding meetings are scheduled, compliance boxes...

HR With Its Head Out the Window

HR ARCHITECTS

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Why Culture Wins: INC Group’s Gold Standard for Employee Happiness

EH AWARDS

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Turning Scrolls into Hires: How BLR WORLD Built a Social Media Recruitment Engine

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Read Happiness While Scrolling

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HR Transformation Is Not a System Upgrade

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Beyond the First 90 Days: What Executive Transitions Actually Require

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Executive Transitions Don’t Fail, Organisations Mismanage Them

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What Today’s Employees Really
Want from Work in 2026 (Hint: It’s Not Money)

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Can AI Have Empathy? The Human Paradox of Tech-Led HR

Move Over Millennials, There’s a New Kid in Town and Leaders Need to Catch Up

For years, leaders across the GCC have been trying to crack the Millennial code. How do we motivate them? How do we retain them?.....

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Retention Isn’t About Perks, It’s About Growth

Drawing on 15 years of HR experience, Ahmad Asseiri argues that employees don’t stay because they’re entertained, they stay when leadership helps them grow meaningfully.

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Rethinking Executive Transitions and the Future of Leadership

Employee Happiness Daily interviews Navid Nazemian on executive transitions, leadership evolution, organisational blind spots, and the human capabilities shaping resilient...

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Building People, Purpose and Progress: Inside DHL Global Forwarding’s HR Playbook in MEA

When Employee Happiness Daily sat down with Eva Mattheeussen, Head of Human Resources, Middle East and Africa at DHL...

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What Today’s Employees Really Want from Work in 2026 (Hint: It’s Not Money)

For decades, the universal truth of the workplace seemed simple: work hard, earn more, climb higher. But in 2026, that equation no longer adds up. Money matters, but it’s no longer the ultimate

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Why Teams Thrive When People Feel Safe to Speak Up

Creator and Chief Facilitator at The Clarity Game, Samir Geepee shares how psychological safety transforms silence into trust, innovation, and sustained team performance...

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The Credibility Gap: Why HR Leaders Who Don’t Think Like the Business Will Never Lead It

Maher Sabbagh explores why HR leaders lose credibility when they ignore commercial realities, and how business acumen, financial fluency, ...

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Why Culture Wins: INC Group’s Gold Standard for Employee Happiness

INC Group Takes Gold for Best Place to Work (Medium) — Employee Happiness Awards 2025 | Written by Charlotte Gibbs, Marketing Lead, INC Group INC Group at Employee Happiness Awards UAE 2025 In high-pressure industries where delivery timelines are tight and competition for talent is constant, building a sustainable people-first culture is often easier said than done. Across the Middle East’s design and construction landscape, organisations are navigating multicultural teams, r

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Turning Scrolls into Hires: How BLR WORLD Built a Social Media Recruitment Engine

Silver Winner — Best Use of Social Media to Attract & Hire Talent | Employee Happiness Awards UAE 2025 | Case Study by BLR World BLR WORLD's global team reunited in the cultural hub of Abu Dhabi for a 2-day annual Bootcamp & Celebration In today's talent market, recruitment rarely begins with a CV. It starts with a scroll: a short video, a behind-the-scenes post, or a campaign that transforms a job opportunity into a story worth joining. For organisations operating across meg

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