Skip Prichard

JUNE 16, 2020

Maya Hu-Chan is a management consultant, executive coach, author, and speaker, and founder of Global Leadership Associates. As an executive coach and leadership consultant, I’ve worked with leaders around the world. It is so essential to their leadership, but it is also counterintuitive sometimes. Me neither.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The ongoing federal investigation of three Equifax C-suite managers for insider trading arose due to alleged stock dumping prior to the revelation of the company’s catastrophic cyber-attack. Attempting to deal with an attack on the down low can earn private enterprises a reputation as easy marks, and provoke subsequent attacks.

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Chief Technology Officer Short-term How To Long-term 93

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Businesses whose employees are happy produce better results and can be more agile on the market. Aside from the boost in agility, there are other reasons why happy employees are good for business. They tend to take fewer sick days and are more economical to insure too. Higher Employee Engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Chief Innovation Officer Jonathan Larsen explains how the Chinese conglomerate manages agility at immense scale.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Buzzwords such as “agile,” “resilience,” and “flexibility” have become almost banal to describe the grim reality of our daily lives and the decisions we must take, as the full effects of the coronavirus pandemic now unfold. Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Buzzwords such as “agile,” “resilience,” and “flexibility” have become almost banal to describe the grim reality of our daily lives and the decisions we must take, as the full effects of the coronavirus pandemic now unfold. Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Train Employees for Management & Additional Responsibilities. Although the FMLA is one part of fixing the workplace, employers must remain agile to its challenges to continue to grow. Strategic recruitment and onboarding can help employers change expectations of how and where people work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Suppose you're a senior executive at a large financial services company such as Nationwide Insurance or ING. David Bogaerts and Jael Schuyer are process improvement experts (" Lean Master Black Belts " and "Agile coaches") in the IT and operations group at ING , a leading bank based in the Netherlands. Probably not.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

That was closely followed by recognition that many corporate cultures had not developed the agility and flexibility to transform: 29 percent said the culture could not absorb all the changes coming from strategy implementation. The importance of active and visible leadership cannot be overstated. Beware of the “frozen middle.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Changing the way you think about stress can help you turn stress into an ally and use it to improve mental agility and work performance; a report in the Journal of Experimental Psychology showed that physiological and cognitive benefits result from thinking of stress as “functional and adaptive” rather than a signifier of “threat.”.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Beginning at 8:45 AM, care teams and managers in our hospitals and clinics gather in more than 1,500 Tier I huddles.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

Whereas conventional change management approaches surmise that top team role modeling is a matter of will ("wanting to change") or skill ("knowing how to change"), the inconvenient truth is that the real bottleneck to role modeling is knowing what to change at a personal level. and calendar analyses (e.g., "You

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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 Bjarte Bogsnes.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. Now, management needs focus on enabling and optimizing the connection, communication and collaboration between employees, customers, and partners. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Digital leaders, those companies that have managed their digital transformations successfully, all show common characteristics in the way they have shaped their IT to work differently with the business. It requires strong leadership from all senior IT executives, as well as new business acumen. Research points to the latter.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

will require aligned goals and supporting systems to manage work between partners. To manage the rising tide of knowledge work performed by a younger generation of employees, Process Strategy 2.0 will make greater use of quick experiments and more agile management processes. Let's explore what Process Strategy 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. Throughout these years of cultural transformation, Intuit’s leadership support has been constant.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. This mindset focuses leadership on making near-term decisions with the longer-term destination in mind, but it doesn’t presume that there is only one path from here to there. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

“The biggest leadership challenge is to create the future while managing the present across the entire organization.” Traditional customer experience management will not cut it anymore. What leadership challenges are emerging for leaders in this environment? ” -Erich Joachimsthaler.

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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. Insurance is still rare in India, so Medtronic had to make its pacemaker more affordable.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Marketing’s growing data demands of speed, availability, and agility in rapidly changing customer behaviors don’t align with IT’s modus operandi of developing and maintaining hard coded, legacy systems. Collaboration IT management Marketing' The relationship, however, has often been a fractious one. Be clear on decision governance.

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