The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 14, 2022

We felt like pieces of equipment or just another set of assets — human resources — wrapped in skin. Eyes roll, and credibility slips when the team knows this person is a chronic underperformer and usually an example of what not to do. Organization consultant John Scherer calls this approach “gap-zap.”

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Incentives Motivation Human Resources Banking 114

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 19, 2017

For example, two CEO’s sit at a table, but they aren’t equal. When I grew up, I used to go to the local Post Bank with my father. In essence, he used inflation as example to explain what happen to blown up titles. But there’s more to it. Titles act as keys. People can weight the same titles differently.

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COO Banking CEO Benchmarking 150

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 8, 2012

The most valuable business on the planet has set a wonderful example for getting things done. I’d suggest hearing aids for the executives of BP, AT&T, Bank of America, American Airlines, and Charter Communications (cable TV provider). Sure, there are exceptions to the rule. Snails can’t hear. Snails live in a protective shell.

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Company Bureaucracy Airlines Banking 212

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The answer lies within those factors that do not require fat bank accounts. Monsanto , for example, enjoys the competitive advantage that emanates from a culture of clout. Qualitative cultures are about the creativity, the ingenuity, and the innovation created by the human resource, not the financial resource.

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Competitive Advantage How To Human Resources Strategy 100

HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2019

Providing it could become a lot of work if you don’t have a sample verification of employment letter, mostly when you have piles of other human resources needs to handle. When employees are seeking for a loan payment deferral or reduction and the bank wants proof of current income to ascertain if they merit an approval.

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Sample Letter Human Resources Document 45

Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

They ride the ups and downs of the economy more closely than the healthcare, government, or high-tech sectors, and average two to three times the rate of employee turnover, according to 2012 numbers from the Society for Human Resource Management. His father, Jim Rhoden, purchased Indian Hills Country Club from Continental Bank in 1978.

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White Paper Case Study Class Newsletter 100

Women on Business

JULY 25, 2012

I had an opportunity to interview Tera Coon, Communications and Public Affairs Director for Sterling Savings Bank and learn more about their Employee Volunteer Program, involvement in the community and the positive impact it has made. TC: Leading by example where management actually volunteers rather than just being on a board.

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Software Banking Survey Learning-by-Doing 193

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Any marketer can play the social media game and do it well with the right concept – you don’t have to have the bank account of P&G or Kraft. Human Resources. Creativity was, and still is the last great bargain in business. Just for fun, I Googled social media & strategy. Search My Site. Search for: Categories.

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Media Brand Positioning Marketing Strategy 199

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

In an interview with The HR Digest, Michael Fraccaro, Chief Human Resources Officer at Mastercard, explains the importance of business resource groups and the vital role it plays to deliver real business results. For example, we worked with Washington University in St.

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

According to Helena Gottschling, CHRO at the Royal Bank of Canada, the purpose of people analytics is to gain fact-based insights that’ll hold the power to enlighten and balance talent conversations. It helps human resource teams to organize the right training and development programs that will aid in the growth of employees.

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Schmitt Tools Survey Diversity 52

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2015

Empowering Style Leadership : Leaders communicate with respect and lead by example. With expertise based on more than 27 years of corporate experience, Phillips has served as training and development manager at two Fortune 500 firms, as senior human resources officer, as a bank president, and as management professor at a major university.

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Organization Human Resources Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

For a striking example, think back a year to the sad story of Moritz Erhardt. He was the 21-year-old investment banking intern who died in London, August 15, 2013, after having worked 72 hours straight at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. (To Investment banking industry: this is your culture speaking.

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Organization Human Resources Banking Flextime 16

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Today, Erni is widely considered one of the most influential leaders in human resources and her company, Audible, one of the most diverse employers in the world. Can you give a specific example? In the space of five years, Anne Erni has transformed Audible, Inc., an Amazon subsidiary, into an end-to-end inclusion ecosystem.

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Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Today, Ernie is widely considered one of the most influential leaders in human resources and her company, Audible, one of the most diverse employer in the world. Can you give a specific example? In the space of five years, Anne Ernie has transformed Audible, Inc., an Amazon subsidiary, into an end-to-end inclusion ecosystem.

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Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

They are experts on something but they don’t care much about the structure of the company, they lack the knowledge about planning, accounting or even human resources. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank. – People Copy Examples and Wonder Why They Don’t Succeed. Steve Schulze, CEO Nekter Juice bar.

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Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

For example, I know a bank executive who had twenty years of great community banking experience, but no bachelor's degree. When his institution was bought out, no other bank would even consider him for a job. If you are enrolled in a program, show it. Now with his degree in hand, he is CEO.

Career 8

Career Skills Cost-Benefit Analysis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

Recently, the CEO of Deutsche Bank predicted that half of its 97,000 employees could be replaced by robots. Such new thinking will generate a whole new human resource development agenda, one quite probably emphasizing those innate human capacities that can provide a renewed strategy for success that is both technological and human.

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Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

And many CEOs we talked to, like Owen Mahoney of Nexon, agree that the CHRO is one of the most strategic roles someone could have: “Businesses grow or die based on the quality of their people, so the human resource executive role is arguably the most strategic in the company. My job is to push the envelope.”

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

In what’s perhaps the most frequently discussed example, some women chose to off ramp for several years sometime in their career, and many are eager for opportunities to return. For example: Flexible time: Flexible shifts, compressed workweeks, and individualized work schedules. Difficult conversations Hiring Human resources'

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Human Resources Loyalty Long-term Career 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

the movement to enhanced reporting is led by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), which is endorsed by regulatory heavy weight Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England. We have found human capital issues are likely to be material in every sector. Performance measurement Data Human resource management'

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Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

If you can build that kind of system as an enterprise, there is no reason to break the bank recruiting superstars or otherwise allow the top percentiles of your talent to walk away with “winner takes all” rewards. In courts of law, for example, we humans will not stand to be judged by non humans.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Storytelling Airlines Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

Using nationally reported statistics from the World Bank (2011) , we found that nations with tighter cultures tended to have fewer female legislators, senior officials, and managers. For example, just 3% of leadership positions were held by women in Pakistan, but numbers stood at 38% in Ukraine. Cultural context matters.

Strategy 8

Strategy Human Resources Diversity Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

A machine learning-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, WorkFusion – cited in Martin Ford’s new book, Rise of the Robots – breaks high volume, complex data work into discrete tasks and algorithmically assigns the work to appropriate machine and human resources.

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Delegation Supply Chain Merchandising Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Census Bureau shows that these businesses were more likely than the average business to close permanently after Hurricane Katrina, for example. Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors.

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Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

For example, at Kenya Women Finance Trust , we were intrigued to hear about the "marriage counseling" its human resources department offers to the newlyweds among its women employees. Mary Ellen Iskenderian is president and CEO of Women's World Banking (WWB), the world's largest network of microfinance institutions and banks.

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Microfinance Diversity Banking Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

For example, Beth Axelrod, SVP of Human Resources for eBay, works with companies such as Gild, which identifies prospective employees on the hard-science side of marketing analytics by examining the quality of their open code. Still other employers search constantly in stealth mode for the best talent.

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Direct Marketing Talent Management Marketing Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

For example, a divisional controller may report directly to the CFO and on a dotted line to the VP of the division; which ensures that the controller knows what the "internal customer" (the VP) needs as well as what the direct boss (the CFO) wants. Can you give me an example?" And there are good reasons why they are so common.

Management 8

Management CFO Human Resources Report 8

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders, Today The purpose of people analytics, according to Helena Gottschling, CHRO at Royal Bank of Canada, is to enlighten and balance talent conversations. The HR Digest: People analytics has a strong place on the strategic agenda of the Royal Bank of Canada. PHOTOS: ROYAL BANK OF CANADA.

Banking 45

Banking Human Resources Diversity Career 45

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

A few months ago I decided to look into the professional experience of non-executive directors at the major banks listed in Britain. Like almost every other major industry today, banking relies on hugely complex, enormously expensive technology. I’m afraid this is typical not just in banking but across most major industries.

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Technology Zero Based Budgeting Banking CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

A few weeks ago, for example, I heard the CEO of a FTSE 100 firm speak at an event to promote women on boards. And, of course, we all remember Deutsche Bank's CEO Josef Ackermann's infamous remark that appointing more women to the company's board would make it "prettier and more colorful.".

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Proposal Advertising Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

The most popular view, supported by the likes of The New York Times , the African Development Bank, and the World Bank — all powerful influencers of how the world thinks about Africa — puts the number of AMACs at more than 300 million.

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Class Globalization Banking Education 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

And when customer data showed that first-time applicants were more likely to move forward when there was a human touch to the process, marketing helped assign a sales person to individual customers. Those steps helped the bank drive up loan volumes, a tangible bump the CMO could point to in discussions with other leaders.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Entrepreneurs often lack formal training in bookkeeping and may not have the experience or the knowhow to secure a bank loan. They advise entrepreneurs on areas including finance, marketing, customer service, and human resources. Skills training is key to fostering successful development efforts in these zones.

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GDP Entrepreneur Finance Training 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

You don’t need to break the bank to offer attractive extras. And with only 1%–2% of companies currently using an unlimited time-off policy, according to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) , it’s clearly a benefit that can make companies more attractive.

Insurance 15

Insurance Policies Survey Bond 15

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? Some of these activities included inherent conflicts of interest; others simply caused leaders to have to act counter to their values (loyalty, for example).

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Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Let’s start with the pioneering companies now offering generous paid parental leave to new dads — firms such as Yahoo (8 weeks), PwC (12-14 weeks), and Bank of America (12 weeks). Deloitte and other leading companies support dads with informational resources and parenting groups.

Sports 9

Sports Human Resources Policies Media 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Consider the cautionary example of a large bank I recently worked with. These ideas and practices, however, were nowhere to be found in the evaluation criteria of the bank’s employees.

Agility 8

Agility Software Incentives Banking 8