HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

The pandemic gave us the opportunity to really test our agility and innovation, and I am proud to say we exceeded expectations, ” she says. “ The pandemic gave us the opportunity to really test our agility and innovation, and I am proud to say we exceeded expectations, ” she says. “ An Ambassador for Inclusion.

Leadership 52

Leadership Agility Diversity Competitive Advantage 52

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 9, 2013

What’s needed to overcome what I call the “leadership crisis,” is not new technology or massive staffing changes. What’s needed is a shift in focus towards recognizing, supporting and developing leaders who possess both a strong “inner-core” of character and conviction and “outer-core” of leadership capability. 3) Alignment-“Must Do”.

Human Capital 238

Human Capital Crisis Commitment Executive Coaching 238

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 1, 2013

demands for greater productivity, more innovation, and doing more with less have made leading at the frontline more challenging than ever. While corporations continue to invest in leadership development, there are still significant deficits. Just 19 percent of respondents felt their leadership development quality was high or very high.

Skills 277

Skills Development Survey Quality 277

Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2018

Metro train accident, the Three Mile Island disaster, the collapse of Enron, the 2012 meltdown of Knight Capital, the Flint water crisis, and the 2017 Oscars mix-up, among other meltdowns, and discover that while these failures stem from very different problems, their underlying causes are surprisingly simila r. “By Can we simplify it?

System 161

System Diversity Sample Leadership Styles 161

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 28, 2012

At a time when discretionary efforts and intellectual property are essential to drive innovation and organizational growth, those who are able to earn natural and enthusiastic followers will deliver the best results. Authentic leadership yields natural followership. Leader credibility is down and the trust deficit is up.

Skills 255

Skills Self-aware Politics Follow-up 255

Skip Prichard

MAY 22, 2019

His new book Superhuman Innovation showcases how AI will supercharge the workforce, the world of work, and can be harnessed to deliver powerful change. It is a practical guide to how AI and Machine Learning are impacting not only how businesses, brands, and agencies innovate, but also what they innovate: products, services and content.

Content 88

Content Innovation Creativity McKinsey 88

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

By contrast, the two books reviewed below offer highly specific ways of engaging culture to build more effective, productive, and innovative organizations. Talk, therefore, is a powerful tool for creating and promulgating more powerful and more aligned cultures. Behave less hierarchically! Become a change agent!

Open-book 260

Open-book Books Competitive Advantage Participative 260

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 29, 2011

12/29/11 – Team Building & Leadership activity (simulation). Favorite Team Building & Leadership Activities + Simulations 2011. Some were leaked super secret like to the Create-Learning Letter a mostly-monthly e-newsletter that has TeamBuilding, Leadership & experiential theory + activities CLICK HERE to sign-up.

Team Building 129

Team Building Team Leadership Letter 129

Coaching Tip

MAY 29, 2012

That’s because trusted leaders in this era of distrust will be the ones rewarded with the innovative ideas and discretionary efforts of others. We can debate the facets of leadership, the types of leaders, and the importance of leadership skills. 2. Anywhere leaders. What do you want from tomorrow’s workplaces? . .

Influence 141

Influence Diversity Career Skills 141

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 26, 2014

To be innovative is to act with creativity by experimenting with how things get done in ways that are good for you and for the people around you--taking realistic steps aimed at scoring four-way wins. HE ENCOURAGES INNOVATION IN HIMSELF AND OTHERS. A great storyteller must be a great listener. Springsteen is a teacher.

Learning-by-Doing 129

Learning-by-Doing Audience Open-book Innovation 129

Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Here is a guest post from Jesse Phillips: Seize the Year is a stylish and innovative calendar designed to help you suck the marrow out of 2012. Here’s how my new calendar will help you dominate 2012: It’s BIG – ?It So don’t just let 2012 happen! I came-up with the idea for a new calendar when I was at Catalyst.

Efficiency 46

Efficiency Planning Follow-up Goal 46

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 1, 2012

Innovation and Continuous Improvement Come from Personal Mastery. Once you master then innovation inevitably happens.”. Innovation Comes From Standardization of Processes. Application to Human Development and Leadership. Innovation comes from mastery. Application to Standardization of Innovation Processes.

Delegation 130

Delegation Innovation Retail Objective 130

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 24, 2012

He goes on to provide the insights and tools for pausing to accomplish more in several key areas including: Personal leadership. Innovative culture. The Pause Principle fills a gap within today’s leadership training. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Employee development. Consider leaving a comment!

Resources 50

Resources Newsletter Construction Innovation 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Change is innovative. Here are some recent celebrations that drew acclaim and participation: Rice University, 100th in 2012. Star Furniture, 100th in 2012. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. Technology is but one tool of the trade. Trait-centered Leadership vs. Servant Leadership.

Case Study 50

Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2012

Here's a guest post from entrepreneur Duncan Murtagh," an Irishman living in Taiwan, who has been to New Hampshire several times": How can we move past the tough times of 2011 to a more profitable 2012? checklist of questions is a powerful tool for looking at your existing product/service lines and coming up with new variations.

Incubator 238

Incubator Early Adopters Business Model Quality 238

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. If you thought you were serious about it, Learn or Die will take you to a whole new level with tools, case studies, and insights that will challenge your commitment to learning. A S LEADERS we must learn and grow. Blog Post ).

Books 285

Books Wiseman Kotter Leadership 285

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. billion on these social sites by 2012. What’s more, these constituencies are driving advertisers to spend an expected $2.6

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

During my junior year in college, I was running for leadership positions in my fraternity. Workers were blamed for quality problems after management had told them to keep the line running instead of properly gauging parts or changing tools. One long-standing issue had been relatively poor attendance at weekly chapter meetings.

Deming 46

Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. In 2016, former American Express CEO Ken Chenault tasked chief human resource officer Kevin Cox with finding new opportunities that would drive innovation and revenue growth. American Express.

Development 12

Development Participative Conference Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 28, 2011

12/29/11 – Team Building & Leadership activity (simulation). Creativity To Innovation: Implementing Inventive Solutions. Team Building & Leadership Model of Transferring Lessons into Organizational Reality. Relevance Enneagram-A Tool for Finding Value in Work. Relevance Enneagram-A Tool for Finding Value in Work.

Workshop 94

Workshop Team Building Six Sigma Innovation 94

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Anticipating their needs is one of the great tasks of leadership development and an area of sustained inquiry at GE. At Crotonville, our corporate university, we're addressing this challenge through an evolutionary leadership curriculum , breakthrough learning experiences, and a transformational environment.

Globalization 15

Globalization Development Agility Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

In 2012, Electrolux leadership decided this had to change. We were surprised by how much the introduction of new store formats, new product types, and new online, social and mobile tools were frustrating consumers because they did not connect to each other. Our transformation centered on the consumer.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Globalization Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Invariably, we have learned that murky human performance categories like sales ability and leadership can be broken down into skill sets that are not only measurable; they are also trainable. million in innovative revenue reductions specifically to the training. HBR Must Reads on Innovation. Innovation Book.

Creativity 8

Creativity Core Competence McClelland Team 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

While most bosses would frown on playing Halo at the office, it’s video games that are driving much of the innovation in video, virtual reality, and collaboration technologies today—something that has important implications for how we work, especially with far-flung colleagues. Consider the implications just for remote workers.

Technology 8

Technology Video Conference Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Nonetheless, between 2012 and mid-2103, Banner has captured nearly $70 million in savings, and by 2017, the savings will contribute $256 million annually to its bottom line. Finally, the leadership team, in partnership with Booz & Company, invited people from across the system to collaborate in cost reduction.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

These generations hold the majority of executive leadership positions across sectors. As we approach the inevitable crossroads of old and new leadership, it's our job to develop the people we expect to carry the torch forward. This, in turn, impacts how we guide and train the younger generation for leadership roles.

Learning-by-Doing 11

Learning-by-Doing Development Environment Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Increasingly, companies are applying data-driven methodologies such as carbon footprinting, product indexing, lifecycle analysis, and ecosystem services valuation to support smarter decision-making and business innovation. And business leadership knows it. We helped create these tools and we have observed the challenges first hand.

Analysis 8

Analysis Licensing Globalization Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Use existing tools. ” Companies that go this route use preexisting digital platform tools to engage their networks. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are prime examples of these tools, and all offer opportunities for two-way, collaborative communication. Difficult, but not impossible. Here are three ways it can be done.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

From 2010 to 2012 I worked as a team leader for WordPress.com, the 8 th most popular website in the U.S. My deepest assumptions were tested and I was forced to reconsider my thoughts on management, leadership, innovation, and more. Test your abilities in the present day. Giving advice is a kind of storytelling.

Consultative 13

Consultative Advice Storytelling Career 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Using our robust data archive system which captures electronic health record, medical and prescription claims, and other information, we create dashboard displays for use by leadership, operational teams, and clinicians to reveal population-level trends and identify patients and clinicians for targeted interventions.

System 10

System Health Care Review Focus Group 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Co-founder Louis Dorval actively aimed, early on, to gender balance the company he and two other “over-educated, privileged white guys from Canada,” created in 2012. All is on the table: company culture, the words we use, the actions we take, company processes, company tools, company norms, budgets, etc.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Diversity Learning-by-Doing Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Analysis has become the primary tool in this regard. Unless we also design new ways of talking about ideas and exploring the future, those product and service innovations will never be embraced by the organization and never make their way out into the world.

Commitment 13

Commitment Banking Proposal Video 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Although this can present leadership challenges related to shifting strategy, culture and operations, it certainly isn’t rocket science. Back in 2012, Erasmus’s CEO, Professor Hans Buller, was a huge proponent of VBHC and led the development of the organization’s 5-year VBHC strategy with one of us (Dr.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

When your leadership isn’t gender-balanced, it’s tough to have a balanced customer base. Lego’s customers were 91% male by 2012 , when the company released girl-targeting Lego Friends after “four years of research.” In a sad and metaphorical twist, the male minifigs can drive cars, run, and hold tools. What are Lego Friends?

Management 14

Management Niche Marketing Retail Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. But innovation is an elusive beast. We can look to companies renowned for innovation — like Apple and Google — and try to learn from them. So what to do? But that's a flawed approach.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8