Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

If You Want Remarkable Teams… Build for Collaboration. If you want great teams, you build them for collaboration. All of what I describe here applies to building remarkable teams as well as building a remarkable culture in your organization. But, do not underestimate the value of continued individual and team learning.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

To better understand this relationship, take a look at the following figure: Not sure if this issue affects you or a team you lead? Within the context of business, mindfulness offers simple – but extremely effective – ways for leaders and their teams to increase productivity. Which, of course, negatively impacts performance.

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Productivity Products Strategy Covey 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Companies have long developed and managed their sales people differently from other employees, placing great emphasis on individual performance. From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%. In one account alone, the improvements have driven $3.5

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Team Metrics Compliance Attrition 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

It has been our responsibility to lead the consortium of IT partners involved in designing, building, and operating the massive, mission critical IT infrastructure and solutions that support the Games. For me, the most interesting aspect of the Games IT project is how the people working on it combine into a high-performing team.

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Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

In 2002 Norman Bodek , "the godfather of Lean ," came to Technicolor's Michigan facility to teach its leaders about how to implement a front-line suggestion process. The top management team learned how to structure their time on the factory floor and how to listen. Consider the story of Technicolor. Their answer? What happened?

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Process How To Attrition Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. In a typical big data project, a manager engages an internal or external team to collect and process data, hoping to extract insights related to a particular business problem.

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Management Supply Chain Tools Article 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

From there, they set an order of battle, an operations plan, and timetable with responsibilities delineated. If I had to identify three skills essential to military success they would be team-building , communication , and delegation of responsibility. When I arrived at the PHC in 2002, it was in financial distress.

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Health Care Delegation PR Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

Some people saw this as a chance to bond with colleagues who were united in their commitment to a common cause — not unlike fans of sports teams who chant, clap, and even do the wave together. Others vented the frustration they were feeling in a socially acceptable way by pounding extra loudly on their drums.

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Company Mission Statement Bond Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

You either go out and buy it, or you develop the talent you already have. Such loans have advantages for the lender: they accelerate player development and/or reduce costs by removing the salary of the loaned player from the lending club’s books. How do you get the talent you need? Both clubs realize a unique win-win.

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

million adults in the United States with high blood sugar levels in danger of developing type 2 diabetes. Some of the San Francisco-based groups, for example, bonded via discussions about the Golden State Warriors basketball team and opportunities to be more active in the city. In addition there are 84.1

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Health Care Participative Wireless Pharmaceuticals 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. To conduct interviews, El Hage and her team go to places including prisons and camps for people who have been driven from their homes by conflict.

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Stress Learning-by-Doing Report Project 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. Where did all that money go?

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Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

Companies across the globe are tackling some of the world’s greatest societal challenges — water scarcity, climate change, and even the rights of women and girls in the developing world. It was a great time to lay out a bigger vision in this area and rally our teams around it. It’s been a huge success there.

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CEO Company Reputation Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2014

Sara Rynes, Amy Colbert, & Kenneth Brown conducted a study in 2002 to determine whether the beliefs of HR professionals were consistent with established research findings on the effectiveness of various HR practices. And yet that’s how many companies operate. In the case of 4-Qs, probably not.

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Human Resources Tools Analysis Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

“It could be money, the chance to develop new skills, or the opportunity to work with great people,” says Pink. ” Because you won’t know freelancers as well as the people on your team, you may need to put this question to them directly. (“Just asking is a woefully underused technique in life,” says Pink).

Management 8

Management Tips Performance Review Project 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Operational Statistics. Every day in the U.S.,

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

The preparations, produced by small teams or individual cooks, are progressively assembled, with sous-chefs (akin to middle managers) controlling the quality at every step. In 1990 they gained a second Michelin Star, and in 1994, they became the first high-end restaurant to invest in a development team and a lab.

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Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Teams can't function well when co-workers don't trust one another. Studies have shown, however, that trust can indeed be actively accelerated and maintained on virtual teams even when they have to be assembled on the fly with employees scattered across the globe. So people initially operate in a positive atmosphere of " swift trust."

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How To Environment Storytelling Bond 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. No executive development program was held at Enron. Running the business. Executives.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57