Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

My article was about the significance of anniversaries as important milestones. My articles reflect the Big Picture of Business. Take ownership of planning programs, rather than abdicate them to human resources or accounting people. Customer Focused Management goes beyond just the dynamics of service and quality.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When noted author and celebrated raconteur Peter Jensen was editing articles for Sunset magazine, the Building Editor brought eight hats to work one day. About once a month, employees at TechniGraphics, the engineering data company headquartered in Wooster, Massachusetts, completely empty the building during lunch time.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

These leaders never micro-manage. They ensure their people have access to both the financial and human resources they need to get the job done and cut them loose to do their thing. These managers tend to micro-manage, blame others for their mistakes and sap the creativity, initiative and vitality from the workplace.

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ReImagine Work

APRIL 25, 2016

“But if we just give her a chance…” In his article, “The Seduction of Potential,” (HR Magazine May 2009) Keith Rosen talks about talks about why we are seduced by underperformers. I have a quick assessment I offer managers. I know it is tough to know when you, as a manager, have done enough.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 15, 2014

One of the major STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) debates currently underway today in the United States revolves around whether or not there is, in fact, a STEM workforce shortage in the country. Laurel Rutledge is the vice president of Human Resources for Bayer MaterialScience LLC. About the Author.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Some will take unsolicited articles, many will give assignments to freelancers. Here’s a tip: learn about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and use of keywords. Crush Your Competition in 2010 You are probably wondering how your competitors are getting write-ups and articles.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. 2 Linda C Smith December 17th, 2010 at 3:17 pm This is an interesting article and interesting that this topic would come up with female leaders at Purdue. But is there a video?

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Your profile page includes an SEO-oriented description field that displays up to 156 characters on search engine previews, with room for more characters that can be viewed by human readers. The LinkedIn platform is designed with built-in features you can use to promote your brand to B2B audiences.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Assets are adequately valued and managed.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Even if you are fulfilled, the odds are that many of your managers and employees are not, according to new study conducted by Metrus Institute. In hiring talent at any level, especially senior managers and executives, this ‘fit’ is critical. Now go optimize your talent — it’s the engine that drives strategy execution.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

If you are not yet in a position to manage your website to do this type of preparatory work for you, consider using social networking tools to expand and complement your marketing efforts. Use your Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, or Ning community to share your information.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy. It was U-shaped.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. The urgency has to come from inside the individual instead of top management.” It came from a leader within the practice.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. True, we can point to the fact that airplanes are massively engineered for reliability, but let’s look beyond the machinery. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. Although long ignored, these middle management positions have become increasingly recognized as critical to executing a company’s strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

The tech sector, which has become as famous for toxic company cultures as for innovation, and as well-known for human resource headaches as for hoodie-wearing CEOs, could use a little of the mellowness and wisdom that comes with age. Management theorist Peter Drucker was famously curious. Wisdom is about pattern recognition.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Take Wells Fargo as an example: Managers were rewarded for the number of accounts they opened and managed. Creating an Ethical Workplace.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2016

For the most part, if they’ve made it into management they’re either junior to midlevel, recently appointed, or working in areas such as human resources, legal departments, and public relations — functions that are beneficial but aren’t usually perceived as core to the business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

And, as reported in a recent New York Times article , women make up just 17% of Google’s engineering employees and 21% of its managers. Diversity Gender Human resources' One possible explanation for such drastic gender disparities is that they are caused by unconscious biases.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Many people and a host of commentators instinctively recoiled at the callous management practices described in a scathing New York Times article last month about Amazon. Catbert, the evil director of human resources in the Dilbert comic strip, suffers from a severe empathy deficit.). They’re a confounding cohort.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly. Furthermore, the operating managers cannot take their eyes off day-to-day operations to focus on innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

And we continue to hear stories about sexual harassment in academia , medicine , science , and engineering driving women out of STEM. Betty, a software engineer, told us, “I had a guy ask me if I’ve had any work done up there… I’ve learned to respond kind of with the funny thing. I said, ‘I sure have.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The team that implemented the initiative was led by a physician and a scientist-engineer, and its members were drawn from Mayo’s Emergency Department (ED) and the Clinic’s Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery. Use technology to identify and address barriers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

The only way it can happen: marketing, IT, operations, and human resources functions must collaborate in unprecedented ways. In a recent article , Sheridan described how he answered customers'' most common questions about fiberglass pools regarding prices, problems, and competitors. How, precisely, did they do this?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

These entrepreneurs typically have an engineering background, and schools that support this approach have strong engineering departments. They typically hire third parties to help them with IT and never make it part of their core business. A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

That encounter came to mind as I read TIME’s recent cover story on the latest fad in human resources, using big data analytics and personality test scores to predict who is best for a given job – so-called “XQ.” ” Of course many businesses are reaping rewards from big data analytics. .”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I was there for a gathering of Human Resources executives, the third conference I have attended this autumn in which a central theme was the “technological revolution” and its implications for employment, education, and lifestyles. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. It was something you did.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Humorous because, as a Human Resources practitioner, I hear similar calls for change within my profession. The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. So it''s not just us!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

For example, HR can work with marketing for guidance on search engine optimization (SEO), a skill that can help HR improve its recruitment efforts. As such, HR can course-correct when necessary by revising or shifting its priorities among hiring, development, and performance-management systems.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. In a traditional business, there is little connectivity or co-creation, so the enterprise value is equal to the “mass” of the company — its human resources, financial assets, intellectual property, and physical goods.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Procurement typically owns your “resource planning system” for contract workers. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement. Yet HR leaders and operating managers were not aware of the reality revealed by the data.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

A scientist or engineer would retire from the organization, wait the mandatory six months, and then field a call from a former manager with an offer to re-engage. Yet it happens all the time when companies make a practice of hiring back retirees as consultants to perform the same functions they did before, at higher pay.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In 1980, Jim Baron, now a professor at the Yale School of Management, and William Bielby, now a professor at the University of Illinois, published a seminal article on firms and inequality. Firms varied in the extent to which frontline operators were responsible for programming these machines, versus engineers maintaining control.

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Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. Entrepreneurs and managers can actively seek to build such experiences by living abroad and systematically comparing what they observe in other markets. In the U.S., Immigrants represent 27.5% And this pattern extends beyond the U.S.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

"Taking the Right Lead" For many years, Patricia Lewis, Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Lockheed Martin Corporation, has advocated increasing the number of talent initiatives for groups that are traditionally underrepresented in STEM – and has gotten results. Lewis | Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Lockheed Martin.

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