The Practical Leader

MAY 25, 2022

Despite working 50 hours and more per week (with an increasing amount of weekend work to “catch up”), it felt like his career wasn’t going anywhere. Down the hall, Brian’s boss was meeting with the HR director to review staffing for new roles and projects emerging from the recent organizational restructuring.

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Tips Restructuring Constraint Open-book 81

HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

It involves assessing an employee’s strengths and weaknesses, setting goals, and providing feedback on their performance. Providing effective performance feedback examples and performance appraisal comments can help managers provide constructive feedback that empowers employees to achieve their goals.

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Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

Women on Business

JUNE 13, 2012

We seek out diversity and strong points of view on our teams, but combine these characteristics with remote locations, tight timelines and resource constraints, and a day at the office can turn into a political and technological obstacle course. Steer toward a clear, desirable goal. Can you share an update on a related project?

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QAspire

JULY 14, 2010

As you very rightly said, driving people (and their performances) through short-term goals leads to risky growth where people are only seen as ‘means to an end’ (resources). Leadership is all about doing the best amidst constraints. By Tanmay , July 16, 2010 @ 5:40 am @Jay - Thanks. Don’t Kill It!

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Long-term Short-term Quality Blog 154

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Two senior management consultants are chatting with each other between meetings: "I heard we managed to staff the new project in New Jersey. Facing pressure to staff a project quickly, there's little to stop them from assuming that Greg wants his next assignment to be just like projects he's done in the past. says the first. "I

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Career Short-term Long-term Health Care 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

This can be especially tough for early-career professionals to accept, especially those in entry-level positions. Whatever its source, entitlement is a career killer, a noose with which employees of any generation can — and do — hang themselves. To Retain New Hires, Make Sure You Meet with Them in Their First Week.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

What’s the best way to get your passion project moving? ” Next, make a timeline based on what you think you can reasonably accomplish toward your project in the time you have. As you chip away on your project, continue to give your job the attention it needs. How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career.

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Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

But even well-intentioned actions, such as providing support or periodic check-ins on a project, may convey to employees that they are not trusted enough to complete the work independently. His solution was to provide a detailed description of the budgetary constraints and how criteria for merit raises would be applied.

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Self-aware Committee Bottom-up Policies 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We're going to see more new possibilities, if my research on Wharton students (part of the Work/Life Integration Project) is any indication. In part, the surveys explored attitudes about two-career relationships. Two-career relationships work best when one partner is less involved in his/her career.

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Survey Career Constraint CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

Far too often, employees willfully choose to self-censor out of a fear of negative repercussions to their career or social standing. Your focus should be on accomplishing the goal, not advocating for your particular idea about how best to achieve it. Make clear that you value thoughtful input more than just any input.

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Proposal Construction Constraint Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

And when I started the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project a few years later, I got some strange looks, for it was odd to be a man talking about work and family at a business school known mainly for its strength in finance. helping young people choose careers that fit their values. investing in what employees do outside of work.

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Constraint Bottom-up Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Career Transitions. Leaving a Stable Job to Create Your Dream Career. What’s the organizational culture, what kind of professionals work here, and what are the constraints or resources in this kind of work? Who among your coworkers has already seen your ability to manage a group and a project? Rebecca Knight.

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Management Self-aware How To Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder. And they faced big constraints. Take the heat of other short-term goals so that time spent collaborating feels like less of an opportunity cost. Harness the power of competition.

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Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We're going to see more new possibilities, if my research on Wharton students (part of the Work/Life Integration Project) is any indication. In part, the surveys explored attitudes about two-career relationships. Two-career relationships work best when one partner is less involved in his/her career.

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Survey Career Constraint CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

What’s the best way to help them set realistic goals? As a manager, your goal is to keep your team engaged, productive, motivated, and happy. You have to figure out what “goals your employee has set for himself and why he wants what he wants,” she says. Be up front about organizational constraints.

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Learning-by-Doing Short-term Goal Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The student teams, with budgets and other constraints, have to assemble and field the best-performing teams they can and justify their investments and trade. The goal is giving students a vocabulary and capability for interactively understanding the links between technology design and construction. What makes a toaster toast?

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Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Feature Triple-Strength Leadership Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Managing resource constraints, controlling health care costs, implementing smart-grid technologies — these are challenges that can’t be addressed unless government, business, and NGOs work together.

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Delegation Business Model Engineering Constraint 8

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 6, 2015

This means that even those on the lowest rung of the corporate ladder are thinking about the vision or direction of their own careers (self-leadership) while executing their day-to-day tasks in order to remain employed (self-management). The Five Levels of Leadership…and Management . There are five levels of leadership: Strategy.

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Management Leadership System Execution 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Relationship management is also vital in successful negotiation, resolving conflicts and working with others toward a shared goal which is especially challenging when a PM is tasked with balancing the needs of customers, resource-constrained engineering teams, and the company’s revenue goals.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011. At a time of profound volatility in the U.S. This was a $1.2

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System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The agency, which provides health care to approximately 9 million veterans at over 1,700 locations, had set a top-down goal to increase the percentage of veterans who were seen within 14 days of requesting an appointment. The crisis that emerged in the Phoenix VA was triggered by the pursuit of a 14-day wait time goal for all appointments.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Time after time, new initiatives and projects are rolled out with great fanfare only to end up abandoned and dubbed expensive flops. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I would suggest that rather than seeking what cannot in most cases ever be achieved, that it makes more sense to seek the highest standard of quality that can be delivered in the shortest period of time, and that is economically balanced relative to the constraints of an ever shifting marketplace.

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