HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. Through Henry’s insights, HR professionals gain valuable perspectives on navigating HR leadership in a dynamic environment.

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Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

CEO Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2010

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Drowning in Oil Finally we have a touch of winter. Another book " Safe by Accident - Take the Luck out of Safety - Leadership Practices that buil a Sustainable Safety Culture " elaborates on some of the foibles of BP safety practice. I am CEO between positions.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 13, 2018

That idea comes from Donagh Herlihy who, when I interviewed him for the first edition of The Next Level back in 2005, was the CIO for Avon. These days, Donagh is the chief technology officer for the restaurant company, Bloomin’ Brands. It requires more patience but yields more sustainable and meaningful results.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Human Resource is all about recruiting, mentoring and tending of the greatest assets of any company—human capital. But the job profile of HR has evolved now, and hiring the right talent, managing the same with the latest technology available, and providing the right environment for the talent to flourish has become the primary task.

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Trends Flextime Human Resources Diversity 105

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Magazine » December 06, 2010 How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View Every so often, The New York Times will run a long feature on the CEO of a large business.    I love those articles because they’re great opportunities for data mining on leadership.  A strong leadership point of view is memorable. 

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Leadership How To Executive Coaching Blog 178

Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g., In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1%

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Consider how the following quotes resonate with your own conception of leadership as it relates to the future. In creating the future, Drucker told me in a 2005 interview, seven months to the day before his death, that “knowledge work… is just beginning to be affected by new technology and overall by new concepts.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

She joined eBay in 1998 and now, 10 years later, she’s following her own advice and leaving the company she helped drive to online success. Meg Whitman, 51, has been quoted saying a CEO should never stay with the same company for more than 10 years, because by that time the company needs a fresh outlook.

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Building Personal Strength

APRIL 4, 2011

2005 photo by Derek Jensen But in a way, paying for gas is less painful than it used to be. Pay-at-the-pump technology, now commonplace, makes the transaction quick and easy. This cultural phenomenon was a big problem for the gas companies. The only thing I might concentrate on is a bug stain as I try to clean the windshield.

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Creativity Brand Management Participative Course 81

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 29, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full How Passion Can Revolutionize Digital Technology, AND Change The World: A Video Every Leader Must See by Starbucker on August 29, 2010 In early 1997, its stock price was $4. That company is Apple. So does a vision matter?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Forbes recently published our list of the world's most innovative companies in which we ranked companies based upon their innovation premium. But why do some companies have a high innovation premium while others do not? CEOs of average companies, in comparison, scored at about the 68th percentile. Jobs agreed with Tesler.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. No longer a company creature; my job was surely destroying my soul. I packed my box, said “so long&# to the big bucks, turned in my company SUV, let go of a cushy expense account, and found the courage to walk away from a career that no longer suited me.

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Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. It is a collection of in-depth interviews with movers and shakers in the technology world. She has a particular interest in Media and Retail companies and their transition to a Web-centric world.

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Entrepreneur Licensing Newsletter Books 28

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. A case in point is TheraMatrix, a small Michigan company. In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 15, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. This game is developed by Pramati Technologies , the leading product development company, based in Hyderabad. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

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Licensing CTO Participative Newsletter 28

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Bjarte Bogsnes recounts the journey of $90 billion Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil toward a more resilient management model, one designed to distribute freedom and accountability as broadly as possible. Tokyo-based insurance company Tokio Marine Nichido Systems (TMN) took an earnest, homespun approach to radical transformation.

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Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 12

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Following are a few of the ways Admiral Clark and his leadership team built bridges so that everyone felt connected and a part of the Navy. The Value Bridge Admiral Clark described his strategy as using the Navy’s “asymmetrical advantages” of the “best technology in the world” combined with the “genius of our people.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Many leaders of midsize companies – especially if they’re the founders – are constitutionally inclined to see new opportunities around every corner. So they begin tinkering with their core strategy, burning up resources while their companies wander off their tried-and-true growth path. Tinkering can kill midsize companies.

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Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

But the kind of organization that marks our own historical moment is, arguably, the turnaround company. In almost every sector, there are once-dominant enterprises that find themselves on the wrong side of a shift in customer demand or the emergence of a disruptive technology. You know their names: Hewlett-Packard. Talk straight.

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Company Video CEO Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

I recently met a top executive at a major enterprise technology firm who runs an $8 billion dollar product line and describes himself as the "Chief Product Designer" for his division (even though his title is SVP and General Manager, and he has never before considered himself a "designer"). He was right there in the middle of it. All of it.".

Leadership 10

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

According to a Booz & Company/Buddy Media survey released last October of more than 100 large companies, only a third have a senior executive charged with overseeing social media. And just over a third (38%) reported social media as a CEO-level agenda item. A new definition of professional behavior is developing in this social world.

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Media Definition CEO Reputation 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. With those gaps, companies must now focus less on the fixed supply of in-house people and more on the capabilities they need to get work done.

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Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Numerous countries, from Singapore to Japan, have established intellectual-property strategies aimed at achieving the greatest possible public benefits from their companies’ innovative ideas, primarily by ensuring that home-grown technologies become globally dominant in their fields. For example, in the late 1980s, a U.S.

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Licensing Technology Participative Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Small and large companies alike are experimenting with these concepts. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs. These businesses now make up more than half the company.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. It took a few years to get things back on track, but from 2005-2010 Apple's innovation premium jumped to 52%. Apple's innovative future hinges on these critical senior-leadership skills.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Smart companies understand that workspaces are a business tool. For example, we’ve seen an explosion of open office layouts, sn part because openness, transparency, and collaboration are some of the attributes companies strive for today. At the same time, the company knew they had some challenges.

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Maturity Real Estate Survey Project 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Being honest and never dissembling is very consistent with the bland axioms of a “feel good” leadership discourse, but as in the case of sports, it is also remarkably inconsistent with what actually goes on in the real world. There’s Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford commencement speaker and technology icon. My takeaways?

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Morale Ethics Case Study CEO 8

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I can say this with confidence, because my decision to jump into Social Media headfirst back in 2005 has played an important role in my personal development as a leader -nearly as important as the direct leadership experience itself. Here are 9 ways Social Media has helped me, and can help you too: 1.

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Media Blog Learning-by-Doing Influence 306

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Every CEO of a large company worries about the small competitor that will come from behind and change everything. That’s why leaders of large healthcare companies are looking over their shoulder and thinking, “What is that small startup that is going to shake up our industry? What makes it work for our company?

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Airlines Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But HP is no longer a values-driven, family-like, innovation-oriented company that inspires commitment. A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. The PC division was sold in 2005. It's a safe bet that resumes are already in play.

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Tips CEO Software Drucker 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

When it comes to technological development for safer guns, it is a task assigned to the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security — not to the U.S. In each case, the company uses this buffer of its distribution structure as a disclaimer of any responsibility for the ultimate use of their weapons.

Licensing 8

Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs. These businesses now make up more than half the company.

Business Model 9

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Its HR function has been instrumental in the $100 billion company's metamorphosis from a floundering computer manufacturer in the 1990s to a prosperous software and consulting services company today. HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005.

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Many companies, including my own, have learned this the hard way as core products and services have matured beyond their sell-by date.) In a 2005 speech to Apple developers, Steve Jobs announced that the Macintosh would no longer be using the PowerPC processor and would shift to the Intel platform.

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Succession Long-term Maturity Learning-by-Doing 8