HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

In an in-depth conversation with The HR Digest, Lisa Chang, the Global Chief People Officer at The Coca-Cola Company, reflects on pivotal moments that shaped her career trajectory. The conversation delves into HR innovations, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence. This created an identity crisis. For me it is impact.

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Chartered Management Institute

JUNE 27, 2023

Videos and Webinars: The Leading Issue with David Smith Tuesday 27 June 2023 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email In the latest instalment of The Leading Issue, CMI CEO Ann Francke OBE will be joined by David Smith, the Economics Editor of the Sunday Times. In this digital event. Like this article?

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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. EY is known for its focus on innovation.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared How Can You Further Develop Your Talent? Linda shares: “ Agility and adaptability are mantras for leaders during this time of global unrest and catastrophic change. As we try to find stable footing in unstable times, ethical agility will be a factor in our success.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2015

Here are a selection of tweets from June 2015 that you might have missed: Reconsidering the Charismatic CEO by Eric McNulty. The Most Important Career Decision of Your Life: Stepping Up to Leadership from @DDIworld. The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company by @profhamel. The Inner Game of Leading by @artpetty.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

“Agile organizations treat disruption and adversity as opportunities.” In this environment of constant change, I often hear that we should be agile. They define agility and offer leaders a roadmap for navigating change. For those who haven’t read the book yet, what is agility? Navigate through Change.

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The Office Blend Blog

MARCH 31, 2020

“CEO job No. 1 is setting — micro-nourishing one day, one hour, one minute at a time — an effective people-truly-first, innovate-or-die, excellence-or-bust corporate culture.” – Tom Peters. The same idea applies for both people and career paths.). What Leads to Organizational Agility: It’s Not What You Think.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The HR Digest talked to Quita Highsmith to discuss the essential role of HR in building a culture of agility, innovation, and engagement. We believe that diversity is more than good for business – it’s good for scientific innovation. The HR Digest: What are the non-negotiable parts of Genentech’s company culture?

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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. “ Carey Pellock: Since I joined Neustar in 2012, the company has undergone significant changes – most notably a transition from public to private company status and the arrival of a new CEO.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

It is the mental agility, a fierce determination, and a never say die attitude that has carried us through the best of times and the worst of times. It is the ability to stay mentally focused on achieving the mission at hand, regardless of circumstances, that will help you take your organization to that next level. I Think Not.

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Chart Your Course

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Case in point, Jay Patel, CEO of Wintergreen Hospitality in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. In fact, according to the global staffing agency Ranstad, “many workers are seeking project or consultant-based work, with as much as 61 percent of the workforce choosing agile* careers by 2019” Greater use of Big Data in HR.

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Modernizing Change Management with Agile and Lean Practices. Jason Little, author of Lean Change Management, discusses his collection of innovative practices for managing organizational change. Like many change agents, this month’s guest had a unique career path that brought him to that role. Guest: Jason Little.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

At USAA, we have a standard for how we work which includes being innovative and building for the future. This last year has only reinforced the importance of agile leaders and a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. What has been the most challenging decision you’ve ever had to take in your career?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&#

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

Once I found my life work and pursued career choices that really turned me on, my health miraculously improved. The excitement emanating from a leader can move an entire group… as Birgitta Wistrand, the CEO of a Swedish company, put it, ‘Leadership is giving energy.’

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The downside of this is that it stifles candor, creativity and innovation and often leads to a my way or the highway environment. While there is little debate that speed can create an extreme competitive advantage, it is not well understood that the lack of speed can send a company (or a career) into a death spiral.

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Mills Scofield

AUGUST 13, 2012

After some tweet and email discussions with Anne Marie Slaughter and Cali Williams Yost about Anne Marie’s article on The Atlantic , and the uproar about Marissa Mayer becoming Yahoo’s CEO while she is pregnant, I decided to weigh in. This messiness is the foundation of change, transformation and innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

It is the mental agility, a fierce determination, a never say die attitude, and placing other’s interests above our own that has carried us through the best of times and the worst of times. A leader’s greatest responsibility is not for his/her own glory, but it is for the well being of those whose care has been entrusted to them. I Think Not.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Co-opted Board Member Ms Janice Tai also talked about her journey towards becoming a Chartered Manager and how this accreditation has empowered her career advancement in her position at an international non-governmental organisation. Don’t miss Ann Francke OBE’s top five takeaways from the trip here.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Anne summarizes, “When the CEOs of Ford Motor Company, Nokia, and Microsoft began changing their respective companies’ core business and/or culture, they each established golden rules for leading transformation. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted Why Strong Leaders Have the Courage to Show Vulnerability.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Perhaps no single factor has a greater impact on a company’s future — for better or worse — than the selection of a new CEO. Choosing a CEO is a high-stakes proposition, arguably the most important decision a board can make. The 21st-Century CEO. Insight Center. Sponsored by Cognizant.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Tim Magwood ( Leadership Coach & Musician ) I would say being an “agile learner” Things are moving fast in our VUCA world and we need more leaders who are learning WITH their people and helping to create deliberate learning organizations. I just read Multipliers this morning. Third, we listen to earn trust and respect.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

With a heavy heart, BFC’s CEO removed his promising protégé from the role and redeployed him back in the US. It turned out to be the best move the CEO ever made. The Link Between Emotional Intelligence and Learning Agility How does emotional intelligence connect to learning agility?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

While they’re not well-suited for tasks that require technical mastery or where a single mistake is game-ending, they are particularly adept at knowledge work that is innovative in nature, when speed matters and the environment is quickly changing. Accelerating innovation. Leading teams Managing people Productivity'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team. Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The new role required the former CEO of Sodexo India On-Site Services to work with a team of 15 executives from different nationalities and cultures, demanding a shift to a more inclusive leadership style. ” Insight Center. Project Credibility. Communicate Effectively (Even Virtually).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. And we received a flood of big ideas and game-changing initiatives and experiments from management innovators in all kinds of organizations around the world. Story by Michael Cuthrell.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Mastering digital requires leaders to be agile amid disruption. Similar to what we’ve learned about creating cultures of innovation, it takes more than a handful of leaders contributing creative brilliance; it takes leaders driving the focus on and readiness for change that going digital requires.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

Determined to get closer to their customers and become more agile and innovative, global organizations like IBM and GE are embracing the matrix organizational model. Our research shows that escalating issues to the CEO often backfires and can doom matrix projects. Implement rotational assignments.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. As real space and cyberspace merge, do financial practices like budgeting provide value over their costs of time, money, effort, agility? CEOs sense the problem perhaps more than CIOs do.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

He cajoled, pushed, and pulled the company into a client-centric, agile structure able to customize delivery of IBM's software assets, hardware assets, and intellectual property. These are the qualities I believe made him the best CEO, so far, of the 21st century: Humility and openness. Palmisano once said, "The CEO is not the brand!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

Conventional performance reviews can also undermine a company’s agility and lead to missed opportunities. That’s not a system that promotes innovation. But we have come to embrace the concept of a “career of achievement” in addition to a “career of advancement.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” The CEO wants one thing, the engineering team another, and customers have their own opinions about feature priorities. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

The answer should not be “the CEO” or “the Chairman” or the equivalent. For instance, to become more innovative, many companies are attempting to redesign themselves as agile, highly connected and open networks of teams and partners in which knowledge is highly dispersed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

If the hum of your career has become so deafening that you struggle to hear those other parts of your life, you’re not alone. For example, one person—a pastor, karate teacher, and yoga instructor—told us about reconciling her jobs into a fulfilling career. Our data suggests such displays of complexity matter.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Being a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. Thirty percent of Fortune 500 CEOs last fewer than three years, and two out of five new CEOs are perceived to be failing within eighteen months. How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his

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