HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

MARC is focused on empowering male executives and leaders to model inclusive behavior, influence more equitable talent management systems and processes, and build effective partnerships across gender. Since 2002, Chevron reports a 68 percent increase in the number of women and minorities in senior leadership and executive positions.

Diversity 107

Diversity Succession Disaggregation Self-aware 107

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

They often give tacit agreement in a meeting, for example, but then proceed to take counterproductive action once the meeting is over. The more these behaviors are codified into an end-to-end system across your organization, the greater the odds of collaboration succeeding when you're not there to reinforce cultural norms.

Incentives 258

Incentives Agility Resources Follow-up 258

Building Personal Strength

JULY 26, 2013

I just finished two terrific parenting books: The Wonder of Boys (1997) and The Wonder of Girls (2002), both by Michael Gurian. They''re unique because they focus on the developing biology, hormonal system, and brains of children. For example, you can''t acquire tennis or golfing skills by reading a book.

Skills 74

Skills Books Maturity Learning-by-Doing 74

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

For example, A successful CFO is likely to have such MAPs (Motivation and Attitudinal patterns) as — strong motivation toward procedures over options; a preference for solving problems over focus on goals; and a high past time orientation that drives focus on traditions, past experience and benchmarks. Below are 2 examples.

Motivation 100

Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

In 2002 he published Creative Destruction , which argues that globalization created much of the art and music we might consider "native." Reggae in Jamaica, for example, borrowed from commercial rhythm and blues broadcasts that drifted over the water from New Orleans and Miami. "For

Globalization 84

Globalization Crisis Creativity Short-term 84

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Some examples of shared team learning are: Regular seminars and guest lecturers: Bring in experts and professors on various topics related to the history, science, or culture of your industry as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and technologists who work in peripherally related fields. These are just a few examples.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

I think the work that Duane Trammell and Ann McGee-Cooper and their associates have been doing with companies like Southwest Airlines and TDIndustries are stellar examples of what can be done within organizations once they make a commitment to servant-leadership. You can find examples of servant-leaders historically and today.

Greenleaf 125

Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

This is just one example of pressures that unfortunately are all too common in business. For example, compensation tied solely to landing a contract invites abuse of the system. The CEO of Volkswagen from 1993 to 2002 was famous for his willingness to demote or fire employees who failed to meet expectations.

Ethics 8

Ethics Company Incentives Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

For example, employees may be reluctant to report safety issues or errors for fear of being reprimanded by their managers or shunned by their colleagues. ” At Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, for example, every employee is considered a safety inspector regardless of job or title. Leaders must lead by example.

Health Care 12

Health Care Quality Report Environment 12

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

I think the work that Duane Trammell and Ann McGee-Cooper and their associates have been doing with companies like Southwest Airlines and TDIndustries are stellar examples of what can be done within organizations once they make a commitment to servant-leadership. You can find examples of servant-leaders historically and today.

Greenleaf 100

Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

To foster it, they often give sales its own learning and development team, recruiting specialists, compensation plan, and management and IT systems — but now they’re finding that those differences can hinder success as much as they support it. The goal was to help sales reps exchange information about complex accounts.

Team 11

Team Metrics Compliance Attrition 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

The key was a systemic approach, identifying critical levers for change that would ripple through well-integrated school systems to create new approaches to student learning. It's time to think systemically about the long standing barriers to school improvement and education reform.

Education 15

Education Technology Engineering Committee 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

On January 17, Dennis Kozlowski will be released on parole by the State of New York after serving an 8 1/3 year sentence in the state’s tough prison system. For example, Martha Stewart was indicted and convicted during the same time period. Kozlowski is the former CEO of Tyco International.

Golden Parachute 8

Golden Parachute Committee Ethics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

The IT systems put in place specifically for the London Games must meet the needs of 200,000-plus members of the Olympic Family as well as the broadcasters to those four billion viewers worldwide. But the complexity of the project is not only a function of having to cover so many clients, sites, and systems.

Committee 14

Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. Prior to 2002, when Sam Palmisano became CEO, IBM had a series of feuding fiefdoms — 170 country units — each with its own policies, procedures, and processes. Another example: In the U.S., HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent.

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation. The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. For example, Umicore’s 2003 acquisition of PMG increased its revenues by 50%.

Company 11

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

So the question is really whether the current, mostly hands-off regulatory regime for broadband has led to faster growth and more investment than if Powell, as chairman of the FCC, hadn’t decided in 2002 to classify cable broadband as a lightly regulated “information service” instead of a common-carrier “telecommunications service.”

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Industry GDP Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

health system grew by nearly 75%. Demand and supply are not growing in tandem: from 2002 to 2012, inpatient days per capita decreased by 12% while the workforce in hospitals grew by 11%. Today, more than 60% of labor is nonclinical and is fragmented across various provider organizations, payer systems, and delivery models.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Compliance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Here we describe three examples of clinicians who are using outcomes measurement to improve clinical care. When prompted, the system will notify a member of the psychiatry team to join Dr. Willig in the consultation room for support, counsel, and follow-up. Streamlining Conversations and Improving Assessments.

Report 8

Report Mayo Health Care Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

For example, they had Dilma accompany Lula in his trips and inaugurations, making her an iconic "right arm." This perverse fiscal system destroys the competitiveness of Brazilian companies and stimulates tax evasion. Lula and his strategists crafted and implemented a meticulous plan. The challenge was huge.

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Globalization Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. Rich countries could simply reject the agenda, or they could co-opt a few key developing countries into the existing system.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

And they will then decide whether they are peer production processes or whether they are price-incentivized systems. While it is possible that there will be a price-based player there, I predict that the major systems will be primarily peer-based. What most them aren''t , though, is charitable organizations.

Cooper 8

Cooper Media Price Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

But there is a pattern among these critics, which is that they rarely ask how well the systems they analyze would operate without algorithms. ” Rather than marginalizing traditionally underserved home buyers, the algorithmic system actually benefited this segment of consumers the most.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Policies Finance Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The 2002 movie Minority Report told the story of a future in which law enforcement could tell who would commit crimes in the future. There is an interesting parallel with the court system where predictions of a defendant’s risk of committing a crime in the future are in many states used to shape the sentence they will be given.

Succession 11

Succession Human Resources Information Technology Software 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

While he was at Amazon from 1997-2002, Greg Linden prototyped a system for making personal recommendations for other products to customers as they checked out. For example, a portion of customers could see a website where coupons for purchases were presented on the first page.

Execution 14

Execution Education Long-term Guidelines 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Let's take another example: AT&T's acquisition of cable companies TCI, MediaOne and Cablevision (Boston only) for approximately $130 billion in 1999-2000 and its subsequent sale of the resultant AT&T Broadband to Comcast for $44 billion in 2002. Enough examples. It is difficult to destroy that much value in only two years!

Strategy 15

Strategy Construction Motivation Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The West African nation was devastated by civil war from 1991 to 2002, suffered a major Ebola outbreak from 2014 to 2015, and lost more than 1,000 people in a major mudslide near the capital city of Freetown on August 14, 2017. As an example, she described a current project to build an app for justice.

Stress 14

Stress Learning-by-Doing Report Project 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Cisco and Xerox, for example, have seen poor results. firms with structures organized around customers would grow from 32% to 52% as firms raced to build customer-centric organizations, and he interviewed companies including IBM and Systems Group that had announced customer-centric restructurings. Is there a flaw in the logic?

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

As advertisers and their agencies continue to experiment with the technological possibilities, it's not hard to imagine reaching the ultimate end, depicted in the 2002 Tom Cruise film Minority Report. In the real world, companies like NEC are already creating systems that recognize and respond to age and gender of passers-by.

Advertising 8

Advertising Brand Media Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

For example, Tom Caroll was loaned from Tottenham Hotspur in the English Premier League to Swansea City. For example, in the Premier League, players on loan are not permitted to play against the team loaning them. Admittedly, these cutting edge examples of talent lending are still rare. Both clubs realize a unique win-win.

CFO 8

CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

About 35-45% of health systems’ total costs stem from practices that don’t benefit and may even hurt patients — such as questionable or unjustified treatments, unproven variation in treatment delivery, redundant or otherwise unnecessary testing, and reimbursement for services that result from bad health outcomes.

Insurance 8

Insurance Cost Incentives Metrics 8

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?

Finance 10

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

America's higher education system is a magnet for talented leaders from all over the world. For example, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi was born in India, Avon's Andrea Jung is Chinese-Canadian, and Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak grew up in Bangladesh. The ability to develop global leaders strengthens American companies and the U.S.

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

billion to acquire the webOS operating system, Hewlett-Packard discontinued its webOS-based series of smartphones and line of Touchpad tablets — losing its bet on a webOS-everywhere future. The technology world has some harrowing examples that no innovation-based industry should ever forget. By answering these five questions: 1.

Innovation 13

Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The number of internet users in China stood at roughly 5 million in 1999 but grew to 40 million in 2002, by which time it was clear that Yahoo was not getting the traction that local Chinese internet companies were seeing. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Tsai, for example, clearly understood U.S.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% For example, Vox Capital — founded in Brazil in 2008 by three young social entrepreneurs — invests in innovative, high-potential businesses that serve low-income populations and contribute to the reduction of poverty. growth in GDP.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

For example, the rivalry between the Beatles and the Beach Boys is thought to have pushed both groups to greater levels of creativity and performance in their song-writing. ” We then collected nine years of play-by-play data (2002 – 2010), totaling almost half a million unique plays. accounting).

Participative 10

Participative Rogers Influence Survey 10