HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Remuneration and Compensation Committees. Spanish flu).

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Now let’s return to the present economic mess we’re in… Concerning the auto industry debacle, do you understand why Congress had the top executives come to Washington to participate in hearings, but didn’t call in the car companies’ union negotiating committees to hear their side of things?

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Committee Automotive Ethics Productivity 140

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Related: 2014 Deming Prize Winners – 2013 Deming Prize Winners – 2008 Deming Prize Awardees. Some background on the Deming Prize from the JUSE web site: The Deming Prize examination does not require applicants to conform to a model provided by the Deming Prize Committee.

Deming 28

Deming TQM Committee Engineering 28

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 17, 2013

I received a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) in 2008 where I learned the theories on much of what was talked about in class. I never looked at various committees I’m on or parts of my job that are project oriented as teams. Previous experience as a team or work group member, or team leader.

Team Building 124

Team Building Team Class Committee 124

Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

According to the US Department of Education, the number of computer science degrees peaked at 37 percent between 1984 and 1985 compared to only 18 percent in the period between 2008 and 2011. As a consequence, women hold only 22 percent of all U.S. computer software engineer and computer programmer positions.

Mentor 50

Mentor GDP Education Engineering 50

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 29, 2011

Roger von Oech Business Plus, 25th Anniversary Edition (2008) Note: When preparing for some interviews, I re-read several books on the creative process and remain convinced that all are still among the best. A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative? This one is indeed a business classic. This [.].

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Rogers Books Creativity Review 80

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

If you have more time, contribute to an association committee. The only way to work networking in is to schedule attendance to an event and go. If that is all you have time for, at least do that, and seek to exchange a few business cards when there. This leads to furthering your credentials and friendships.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Chris Brady

APRIL 2, 2010

WInner Announced After much deliberation, hair-pulling, name-calling, and the general good-natured slug-fest that is always required for such artistic pursuits, the exclusive selection committee has finally determined a winner for the latest Caption Contest, #2010.3. 

Meyer 50

Meyer Committee Letter Travel 50

Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2012

. ——————————————————————————————– I received a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) in 2008 where I learned the theories on much of what was talked about in class.

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Class Project Construction Learning-by-Doing 120

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

since the index was first developed in 2008. Do nominating committees recognize how difficult it is for even the most seasoned and sophisticated executives to think outside of their “home culture”? To be sure, this represents an improvement over 2008, when those figures were 6.6% According to our data, only 7.2%

Globalization 14

Globalization Committee Telecommunications Consensus 14

Roundtable Talk

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Although the athletes will be the ones most remembered from these games, it is the Vancouver organizing committee led by John Furlong that deserves their own big fat gold medal for leadership. We could all take a page from John Furlong and the VANOC committee on how to lead in high pressure situations.

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Committee Gordon Blog Godin 31

Roundtable Talk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Going green: start your own grassroots leadership revolution → Own the Podium: when stretch targets go bad Posted on February 23, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment There’s lots of hand wringing and apologizing going on from the Own the Podium committee, athletes and the media at large these days.

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Committee Motivation Blog Godin 34

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. As I have explained elsewhere , a finance committee is critical for a board in complex public companies like GE, which are involved in a broad range of retirement plans, stock buybacks, and large acquisitions.

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

There were so many great entries that our selection committee decided to honor the top 3. Winners Announced   You guys continue to outdo yourselves! Thanks for providing the rest of us with so many good laughs! As you may have guessed, choosing a winner was very, very difficult! See their entries below.

Letter 50

Letter Travel Committee Blog 50

Roundtable Talk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Bold pronouncements, a prominent position, gushing empathy, sitting on many committees for good causes, etc all feature regularly. Here’s a sample quote: “In most (although not all) cases, the identified serial bully is a female whose objective is to demonstrate to the world what a wonderful, kind, caring, compassionate person she is.

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Absenteeism Handbook Stress Godin 34

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 18, 2008

About Portfolio Resources eBuzz Blog Home Blog Smile Please Things that make me smile #45 – Definitions Redefined RSS Feed Things that make me smile #45 – Definitions Redefined By Rajesh Setty on Thu 18 Dec 2008, 6:47 AM - View Comments Kavitha sent me an email with new definitions for common words. Here is the list.

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Definition Licensing Newsletter Insurance 28

Roundtable Talk

MAY 18, 2011

After an affair with an IMF staffer back in 2008, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was quoted as saying: “The personal behaviour of the managing director sets an important tone for the institution. And, of course, the incident in 2008 wasn’t the first one. Gee… glad to hear that.

Crisis Management 34

Crisis Management Reputation Hotels Committee 34

Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

" Almost always, that "doing something" involves the growth of government through the creation of new agencies, bureaus, boards, committees, programs, expenditures, and the passing of new laws. One such reaction is to allow people in power to utilize that power to "do something."

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Blog Leadership Crisis Travel 125

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

I should know: my company, Atos, is the worldwide IT partner of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the lead technology integrator for the London Games. Thus, London 2012 is reusing a lot of the IT operational procedures we implemented for the 2008 Summer and 2010 Winter Games.

Committee 14

Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

Chris Brady

AUGUST 16, 2010

I think the copy should be donated to the USA Soccer World Cup Organizing Committee. (Or Winner Declared » August 16, 2010 World Cup Predictions Contest Well, I was going to leave this one to the side, but so many of you have been writing and asking who won the World Cup contest that you've left me no choice.

Letter 50

Letter Sports Open-book Blog 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Hearings last month before the Senate’s banking committee and the House’s Financial Services Committee point to further dangerous cultural dynamics inside Wells Fargo. According to Stumpf’s testimony, a board committee became aware of the fraud “at a high level” back in 2011. Why risk it?

Banking 10

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Our findings include the following: One percent of Intermountain’s patients used 24% of the total amount we spent on patient care between 2008 and 2012. Each hotspotting committee has a charter, which is a frequently updated document that describes its purpose, participants, scope, decision-making authority, and objectives.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Five main factors make our clinical partnerships work: Joint operating committees that meet regularly. Take Silver Cross’s joint operating committee with RIC, which convenes on a quarterly basis to review Balanced Scorecard metrics on quality of care, patient experience, volume, and efficiency. A culture of shared values.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Ford CEO Alan Mulally tried to mitigate the impending bullwhip during the 2008 financial crisis by imploring the U.S. Senate Banking Committee to save his competitors. Lessons from the 2008 financial crisis can help companies adjust to both the down swings in demand as well as the upswings that are sure to follow.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. Back pet charities, not those with a strong track record. Talk about "results" without measuring them. Sadly, this low-impact approach to corporate philanthropy is too common.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

The company's executive committee has embedded its scores in its Key Business Indicator reports. Rackspace went public in 2008 — shortly before the financial markets went belly up. At the fast-growing company Rackspace, CEO Lanham Napier makes a point of reading customer survey data first thing every day.

Customer Loyalty 13

Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

in 2008 after Lehman Brothers went under. That happened in Dubai in late 2008 , when housing sales fell dramatically and real estate companies, some of them state-backed, were unable to service debt. Nothing of the sort happened, of course. In fact, the Lehman Brothers collapse is the wrong analogy to use.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Bond Banking Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Nudge , a 2008 book by Richard Thaler (winner of the 2017 Nobel prize in economics) and Cass Sunstein refers to this as choice architecture. Create more-diverse hiring committees? And it turns out the workplace is full of opportunities for better or worse choice architecture. Display a performance metric on the wall?

COO 8

COO Incentives Sharpe Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

At Hartwell Pacific, the global metal recycling company I founded in 1993 and exited in 2008, I was operating factories in six different cities in four countries, so developing an effective global management system was critical. One of the biggest challenges they face is how to manage a diverse group of people across a broad geographic scope.

P&L 15

P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

The title comes from Alan Greenspan's now-famous admission to a Congressional committee in 2008 — "I have found a flaw in the model that defines how the world works" — and as best I can tell it posits that extreme income inequality was a precipitating factor behind the financial crisis.

Porter 15

Porter Trends Policies Film 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) requires that the two budgets (Games and infrastructure) be separated, to assist with transparent analysis of expenditures. Both extremes are instructive to current bidders. For the 2012 Games, London won the close-fought contest.

Sports 14

Sports Construction Analysis Hotels 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Bank of America convenes a local committee of bank leaders in each of its 45 Neighborhood Builders markets then uses a short application and lots of on-the-ground research to select two awardees per community per year. And, as a result, we are now able to identify three key reasons why it has been so effective. It is both local and national.

Case Study 14

Case Study Banking Participative Training 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out. Just four years earlier, in 2008, the European bank Société Générale realized that one of its traders had lost over $7 billion through a series of fraudulent trades.

Banking 9

Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

By 2008 it had attracted 33,000 applications; by 2010 that number had risen to more than 550,000. That year it set up a cross-functional committee drawn from IT, sales, marketing, and finance to map out its path to becoming what the company later called "the enablers of global e-commerce." But it didn't need to.

Strategy 8

Strategy Organization Committee Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

Since the 2008 financial collapse, a new generation of business school deans is placing increased emphasis on developing global leaders. Half of 3M's executive committee comes from outside America. America's higher education system is a magnet for talented leaders from all over the world.

Competitive Advantage 12

Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

We will know if the membership of the top decision-making body, the Standing Committee of the Party Politburo, is being cut from the current unwieldy nine people to a more cohesive seven. We will know where the putative next Prime Minister, Li Keqiang , a protégé of the outgoing leader, Hu Jintao, ranks in the Party hierarchy.

Leadership 8

Leadership Short-term Committee Politics 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

Despite industry challenges and the 2008 recession, Futren has continued to prosper and expand. Club employees also serve on the boards of several local charitable organizations and committees. One small business in Georgia continues to overcome these hurdles.

Strategy 133

Strategy White Paper Human Resources Case Study 133