HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

Pat Teague, who leads USAA’s human resources team, talks to The HR Digest about the company’s leadership development programs that has helped attract the industry’s most driven workers and how tough times can have a motivational impact on the workforce. USAA takes great pride in its leadership development programs. How are you coping?

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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. I strongly recommend to all business leaders that they learn to develop a command presence, and lead from a committed and passionate position of strength.

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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. Development programs are no longer a “nice-to-have” but are critical to empowering the next generation of leaders.

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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. It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Mellisa Patrick CMgr MCMI, CMI’s programme development manager, attended the event to engage with potential new partners, including universities, colleges, and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) providers. Don’t miss Ann Francke OBE’s top five takeaways from the trip here.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Only the CEO has the power to provide this kind of direction across the entire enterprise.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Agility, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment and focus all lead to the creation of speed which results in a certainty of execution. 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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. The goal was to make IBM more agile and able to predict — even prescribe — where IBM's markets would go.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development.

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HR Digest

JULY 29, 2020

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. With a data-driven business approach, HR can help the organization develop a workforce plan that makes optimum use of talent investments while at the same time effectively monitor end-to-end HR functions, including many other initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function. Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

To accommodate frequent, fundamental changes to business models, leading retailers generally follow three principles that have been developed through trial and error, often in the midst of disruption. When CEOs lead these meetings, teams can raise any issues, big or small, and get them resolved in minutes.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In our surveys, more than 66% of CEOs said they expect their companies to change their business model in the next three years, with 62% reporting they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their business more digital.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees.

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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. Empathy, on the other hand, enables leaders to develop a better understanding of their counterparts' perspectives and their customers' mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Ford, for example, reengineered its global product development process to keep all parties, including suppliers, up to date on the status of new products in its pipeline. They then must help define the support they need and ways to develop their skills. Apple uses Foxconn to make iPads, iPhones, and iPads.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

” The bottom line is that most people don’t want to be “sold” by an ad anymore; they want to develop a relationship where a business earns their purchase by offering invaluable content. According to Noah Kagan, the CEO of SUMO , Sujan is half-mad scientist and half content master.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Here's how they did it, and how they're using social media tools to become more agile, to share knowledge, and to increase the speed of innovation. Unisys CEO Ed Coleman addressed this through leading by example. Communications: Develop a communications plan. And, once it is built, they have a stake in its success."

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

The only competitive advantage comes though agility, keeping ahead of the competition, moving on to the next technology wave. Managers can no longer take months to develop requirements, then wait for IT, then tell IT that wasn''t what they wanted. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs). Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In this context, "corporate catalysts" — entrepreneurially-minded people inside corporates — are working with corporations' resources, scale, and growing agility to develop innovative solutions to global challenges. It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

We found that boards tend to progress from good-to-great along a four-phase continuum: 1) foundational, 2) developed, 3) advanced, and 4) strategic. The continuum essentially represents a corporate hierarchy of needs, akin to the famous personal-development hierarchy created by psychologist Abraham Maslow.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

CEOs must convince the board, markets, employees, and customers that what they are doing is valuable. MBA students are dutifully taught finance, strategy and operations as if revenue appeared by magic and salespeople were at best a necessary evil. Instead, what he looks for are intelligence, curiosity and an agile mind.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The UK’s Department for International Development uses “results-based” aid to improve the educational outcomes of young girls in Africa and Asia. Finally, some companies have struggled to finance their activities without payment while they work on delivering the results, limiting their ability to innovate too.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world. We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. But there may be more to the metaphor.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

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. Many CEOs expect their next CIO to come from marketing instead of their or another IT shop. Now, however, the model is changing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. He is currently creating new businesses inside the Hearst Corporation, where he''s been driving the development of Manilla.com for almost 2 years. The boat can turn on a dime.

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