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# News

When a study lands on a leader’s desk, I read it as I would as a chief executive: what it found, and whether it should change how you lead this week.

1.  [![Warm desk lamp lighting a folded handwritten card on an empty wooden desk in a quiet office at dusk](https://linusmurphy.com/images/news/recognition-and-employee-retention-gallup.webp)](https://linusmurphy.com/news/recognition-and-employee-retention-gallup/)
    
    1 November 2026 · Gallup
    
    ## [Recognition and Retention: What Gallup's Research Tells CEOs](https://linusmurphy.com/news/recognition-and-employee-retention-gallup/)
    
    Gallup and Workhuman tracked nearly 3,500 employees: the well recognised were 45% less likely to leave. What the study shows and how a CEO should act on it.
    
2.  [![Empty running track at dusk, white lane lines curving away into low mist](https://linusmurphy.com/images/news/employees-losing-patience-with-change.webp)](https://linusmurphy.com/news/employees-losing-patience-with-change/)
    
    25 October 2026 · Harvard Business Review
    
    ## [Employees Are Losing Patience with Change: What the Gartner Research Shows](https://linusmurphy.com/news/employees-losing-patience-with-change/)
    
    Gartner researchers found willingness to support change fell from 74% to 43% in six years. How leaders can rebuild their teams' patience for change.
    
3.  [![Two compasses on a weathered map, their needles pointing in slightly different directions](https://linusmurphy.com/images/news/growth-mindset-meta-analyses-disagree.webp)](https://linusmurphy.com/news/growth-mindset-meta-analyses-disagree/)
    
    22 October 2026 · Psychological Bulletin (PubMed)
    
    ## [Two growth mindset meta-analyses disagree. Here is why](https://linusmurphy.com/news/growth-mindset-meta-analyses-disagree/)
    
    Two 2023 Psychological Bulletin meta-analyses reached different verdicts on growth mindset. The gap comes from what they counted and how they counted it.
    
4.  [![Row of seedlings at different heights in terracotta pots on a sunlit windowsill](https://linusmurphy.com/images/news/growth-mindset-interventions-for-whom-and-why.webp)](https://linusmurphy.com/news/growth-mindset-interventions-for-whom-and-why/)
    
    12 October 2026 · Psychological Bulletin (PubMed)
    
    ## [Growth mindset interventions: for whom they work, and why](https://linusmurphy.com/news/growth-mindset-interventions-for-whom-and-why/)
    
    A 2023 meta-analysis of 53 randomised samples found small, variable growth mindset effects, larger for targeted groups. What that means for leaders.
    
5.  [![Empty mountain road winding through evening haze towards a distant pass, a lone guardrail tracing the bends](https://linusmurphy.com/images/news/the-transformation-deficit-gartner-research.webp)](https://linusmurphy.com/news/the-transformation-deficit-gartner-research/)
    
    6 October 2026 · Gartner
    
    ## [The Transformation Deficit: What Gartner Found About Change Fatigue](https://linusmurphy.com/news/the-transformation-deficit-gartner-research/)
    
    Gartner found employees faced five times more planned change in 2022 than in 2016, while willingness to support it halved. What it means for a CEO.