Skip Prichard

MARCH 21, 2021

Employee mobility is a new reality that many organizations will wrestle with in coming years. To seize opportunities and beat the competition, you will want to read Flat, Fluid and Fast: Harness the Talent Mobility Revolution by Brynne Kennedy. She’s the Founder of award-winning talent mobility software company Topia.

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Trends Policies Career Real Estate 102

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

After years of working in tech startups, which strive to transform underdog status into competitive advantage, I dove into the nonprofit world. Many of these nonprofits use technology, but the way they transform perceived weaknesses into strengths — nonprofit judo — can inspire any social venture.

Strategy 11

Strategy Market Segmentation Crisis Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

A person like Juliet (not her real name), for example, who described a stressful stretch of her career as “disgustingly exciting.” While precariousness exists in organizations too, there it is often temporary — tied to the early stage of one’s career or to a sudden change. Her skills were tentative.

Career 15

Career Uncertainty Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens? Why is one multinational consumer goods company organized by category, while another organizes by region? Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business?

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

Do you sometimes feel like your organization is flailing, barely able to keep up with the pace of change? And organizations need more individual leaders who can help everyone navigate through the new, speeded-up and volatile world. The Transformational Leader. Thus transformational leaders s et context and inspire.

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. The first job of a leader is to enable an organization to survive without him or her. His first act was to abolish IBM's corporate executive committee.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Performing “social business assessments,” the students looked at how the organization collaborated internally and built connections with suppliers. In a similar way that consumers today choose their entertainment, EMLYON students can choose the courses and content relevant to their career path when, where, and how they want it.

Education 8

Education Industry Technology Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

These efforts formed the guiding principles for transforming a former food production and distribution center into a district for inclusive prosperity. Here, real estate developers and managers can orient their tenant selection around companies that provide higher-paying, family-supporting jobs with pathways for upward mobility and careers.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Orchestra conductors are surely overexploited by management thinkers to describe what effective leaders do in organizations. To mobilize a following towards a shared purpose, leaders need to articulate that purpose in a language that potential followers value and understand. Skillful execution. Reflective spontaneity.

Audience 13

Audience Leadership Development Fashion Education 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Of course, there are indeed strong examples of digital converts who have completed this assimilation successfully and built world-class digital marketing organizations that reimagine brand engagement, and even reinvent business models. Now, a few CMOs may feel unfairly implicated here. What do these "digital CMOs" do differently?

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

ConnectMe leverages the world’s leading CRM cloud solution, Salesforce, to help organizations navigate the changing workplace and deliver an exceptional employee experience. Deloitte’s ConnectMe enables a digital workplace by using insights to connect the workforce to what they need, where and when they need it.

Technology 10

Technology Consultative Content Human Capital 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Organizations are more boundary-less, agile, global, and transparent — and will be even more so in the future. How should your organization plan for the changes ahead? To help frame where the world of work is going, CHREATE leaders identified five fundamental forces driving change: Social and organizational reconfiguration.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Technology Globalization Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

If you’re a mid- or late-career marketer, chances are your job today is mostly unrecognizable from what you signed on for. For marketing leaders, this has forced some serious soul searching on how to meet these challenges. But La Prairie’s Osen makes it clear that the goal isn’t transformation for its own sake.

Storytelling 11

Storytelling Brand Audience Marketing 11