HR Digest

AUGUST 2, 2020

A survey of executives found that women view leaders as those who share their knowledge and connect with their colleagues to help the team and the business. Women gaining more power to lead, green-light projects, and innovate does not come at the expense of men. In fact, women at the table make more successful businesses.

Books 105

Books Entrepreneur Leadership Advice 105

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Online surveys, social media and voice-of-the-customer events all help to ensure that a fact-based understanding of customer needs drives the company forward. Ajay Kaul, managing partner at AgreeYa Solutions , brings over 25 years of experience in sales, staffing, and IT project management for clients throughout the world.

Organization 58

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! In this post I’ll share 3 misconceptions entrepreneurs and business leaders should be aware when starting a company but also when starting a bigger project. Dye from Lead Change Group presents Why Your Employee Survey is a Waste of Time.

Leadership Development 249

Leadership Development Development Leadership Lewin 249

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

We often: • Overestimate our contribution to a project; • Have an elevated opinion of our professional skills and standing among our peers; • Exaggerate our project’s impact on profitability by discounting real and hidden costs. Marshall was the highest rated executive coach on the Thinkers50 List in both 2011 and 2013.

Succession 181

Succession Commitment Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 181

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. gDNA is a longitudinal survey of Google employees on everything from happiness to teamwork to office layout. Both Gmail and AdSense, the company’s ad software for publishers, started out as 20% time projects.

IPO 15

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

The Federal Reserve’s forecast (made in December 2013) is for a rate of 6.3% Others are even gloomier: Trading Economics projects unemployment rates above 6% for the next couple of decades. Using an alternative model for projecting job growth, we see an entirely different scenario, one in which the U.S.

Trends 8

Trends Dunning Survey Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Meanwhile, in a survey of 89 institutional investors by Callan , 43% of respondents said they incorporate sustainability factors into their investment decisions — up 21 percentage points from 2013. Is there an adequate return on investment over the long term to justify moving forward?

Execution 10

Execution Incentives How To Committee 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Back in 2013, a much-touted survey suggested that by 2020 — just over a year from now — a whopping 40% of the workforce would be so-called contingent workers, a number that would include contractors, temps and the self-employed. 3: Gig is better.

Quinn 10

Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The team’s mission was to come up with new products for the European market — and then, significantly, to convince senior management in South Korea to invest in those projects — several of which, it turned out, required Samsung to deviate from their current strategy within the product categories in question.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It’s common to see surveys, polls, and reports showing that “most” organizations are embracing big data. For instance, a 2013 Gartner survey found that 64% of enterprises were deploying or planning big data projects, up from 58% the year before. Is big data just another IT project that can be run by a unit head?

ROI 9

ROI Maturity How To CRM 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

But the development landscape is littered with projects that never got past the pilot stage. When the seed funding from philanthropies or governments runs out, if projects haven’t signed up enough paying users, there’s nothing to fuel growth. As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Project System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Rather than “saving” feedback for annual performance reviews, make discussions about what someone did well, and what he or she could do differently, a part of every supervision meeting or project debrief.

Brainstorming 15

Brainstorming Attrition Policies Bond 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. ” And yet, for decades, teachers have endured.

Education 8

Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Yet the decision to green-light a project is usually based solely on “expert opinions” — in other words, executives’ intuition supplemented by standard regression analysis. Only three or four out of every ten movies made in America breaks even or earns a profit. There’s got to be a better way. We think we’ve found one. Here’s how it worked.

Discounted Cash Flow 8

Discounted Cash Flow Net Present Value Comparison Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

The table below shows examples of some of the specialty-specific metrics the DPIs helped devise, and cases where DPIs received $5,000 grants from the medical management team to support their process improvement projects. Grant Project. Patient satisfaction surveys. Specialty-Specific Performance Metrics. Department. Anesthesia.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Document Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function. And HR’s credibility deficit doesn’t help the matter.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

doctors in 2013 , 48.9% First, the participants received a monetary ($25) incentive to complete a baseline survey, which asked about socio-demographics, health care, and medical mistrust. Second, the researchers gathered additional data by surveying a similar sample of 1,490 black and white men on doctor preferences.

Health Care 11

Health Care Participative Incentives Diversity 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Indeed, according to the Association for Talent Development, nearly 40% of corporate training in 2013 was delivered through technology, and that number is projected to grow. My company recently surveyed 525 Millennials (people born after 1979) to understand their views on learning and leadership development.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. Earlier this year, we projected that sales will hit $6 billion by 2018. medical marijuana sales hit an estimated $1.5 Impressive, but that’s only the start.

Industry 10

Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

By the end of 2013, nurses reported over 20% of patient handoffs still had missing information. The handoff project successfully reduced the number of handoffs with missing or inaccurate information, and the team has been able to sustain these improvements. Adopting a more systematic process. The Six Stages.

Long-term 8

Long-term Janis Quality Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. Every organization needs strategic thinkers.

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Root Cause Analysis Tactics Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it. billion in revenue in 2013. According to a 2017 Gallup Employee Engagement survey, 33% of U.S. That may not sound unusual, but here’s the first twist: When her team shares a problem or an opportunity with her, she will not offer a solution.

Team 14

Team Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Since achieving first-year sales of $175,000 in 2006, it has increased that number by four orders of magnitude: in 2013, Etsy sold $1.35 A survey of its 5,500 U.S.-based In 2013 alone, Kickstarter users funded nearly 20,000 projects and committed nearly $500 million. cut of sales. billion in merchandise.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

According to the most recent Congressional Budget Office projections , the current proposed fiscal measures, if implemented, would automatically slash the federal budget deficit by $503 billion between FY 2012 and FY 2013. Above all, the Chinese don't want to see the U.S. China is one of the world's most shrewd investors.

GDP 15

GDP Class Budgeting Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In 2013, my partners and I conducted a combination of surveys and interviews with over 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings, and one of the things that repeatedly fell into the dislike column was politics. Need more evidence?

Politics 8

Politics 360-Degree Feedback Skills Seminar 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

BIPAC conducts extensive biennial studies of employer-employee communications programs through both national polling and surveys within companies deploying such communications. Our Prosperity Project (P2) strategy and platform is the largest and most pervasive business grassroots and advocacy platform in the United States.

Politics 8

Politics Policies Survey Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

And our own survey of 795 large companies (average revenue of $22 billion) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America found average per-company spending on IoT initiatives — $86 million in 2015 — was projected to grow to $103 million by 2018. Spot surveys become snapshots of limited customer input.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Wireless Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

’s ” Similarly, according to a survey by CareerBuilder in 2013, almost a third of employers said that their educational requirements for employment had recently increased, and specifically that they were hiring more college-educated workers for positions previously held by high school graduates. Jobs That Newly Require B.A.’s

Education 10

Education Skills Marketing Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

For example, I once helped survey US global money managers. Since 2013, BizCorps has placed top MBAs in Columbia and Kenya. “If you are a CEO who has some large, profitable project you are shelving because of short-term worries,” he offered, “call Berkshire. Let us unburden you.”

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. In December 2012 and January of this year, Tata Consultancy Services surveyed 1,217 executives from large companies (revenue of more than $1 billion) in a dozen global industries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America.

ROI 8

ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Marissa Mayer’s move to ban working from home at Yahoo in 2013 caused a media firestorm over the costs and benefits of this rapidly growing practice. The home-workers were also more productive per minute, which employees told us (in detailed surveys) was due to the quieter working conditions at home.

Policies 8

Policies Call Center Attitude Survey Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

After surveying over 20,000 workers around the world, analyzing 50 major companies, conducting scores of experiments, and scouring the landscape of academic research in a range of disciplines, we came to one conclusion: Why we work determines how well we work. One 2013 study illustrates this well. How does culture drive performance?

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

At the consultancy where she used to work, Karla Martin, Google ’s Director of Global Business Strategy, watched a partner repeatedly offer the lead role on new business to a white male whom she had previously led on a massive cost-reduction project for a multimillion-dollar client.

Management 8

Management Diversity Report Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

According to our recent benchmarking survey of more than 100 senior executives, 94% of executives sell at least partially through distributors, accounting for about 50% of their revenue in emerging markets. Difficulty in distribution is not unique to Asia and reflects a global trend.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

billion in mining projects since 2010. In 2013, GE had reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 32% and water use by 45% compared to 2004 and 2006 baselines, respectively, resulting in $300 million in savings. In its survey of over 200 institutional investors, 59.1% Fostering innovation. ” Investors are paying attention.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8