Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

Plan: Plans need to be continually reviewed to keep the team on track Productivity (Measures & Accountability): assigning tasks, measuring success and rewarding results are an oft overlooked element of successful team development.

Tips 34

Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

When you find an organization in crisis, you can most times peel back the layers on poor decision, after poor decision, after poor decision. To speak "your truth" is perceived to be a potentially career limiting, if not ending move.

Politics 375

Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

You are the newly promoted vice president of business development at an oil company. Here are five questions to ask: Do your company’s incentives match its policies? But it is the employee incentives that really matter. Picture this. Your first assignment is to land an oil field services contract abroad.

Ethics 8

Ethics Company Incentives Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

For instance, according to our labor supply and demand data, there is only one active job seeker for every three open positions in multiple fields, including nurse practitioners and cloud developers. When developing a recruitment strategy, companies can more fluidly project which positions will be the most difficult to fill.

Skills 15

Skills Incentives Training Positioning 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Brownout, a term also used to describe part of the life cycle of a star, is different from burnout because knowledge workers afflicted by it are not in obvious crisis. After an active partnering development process, he had shed 40 lbs and had a clear vision of how to take his performance and contribution to the next level.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Crisis Execution 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 29, 2010

I also believe there is a place for all of these in the workplace, that leadership is as much about these things as it is about building market share, managing the bottom line or developing strategic alliances. It’s also the part that no big incentive program can hope to convey. That’s the hard part.

Leadership 41

Leadership Blog Video Bottom-up 41

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Case in point is Wal-Mart CEO, Lee Scott, who is so concerned with diversity mandates that Wal-Mart officers are held financially accountable by tying officer incentive bonuses to achieving diversity goals. This is a leadership issue in which diversity, and the awareness of it, will play a key role in the development of future leaders.

Diversity 350

Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

And yet its usefulness is so often diminished because the vision is developed “at the top” of the organization and seldom shared by those who are expected to work toward its achievement. You have given me incentive to do that. link] LeadershipNews: A Leadership Crisis or a Branding Issue? Great post!

Learning Organization 56

Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

Companies try to motivate their people with incentives and unique perks like ping-pong rooms and free meals, but none of those approaches address the deeper issue of why employees are so disengaged. To become more systematic about culture design, we use a tool that our company, Strategyzer, and Yves Pigneur co-developed with Gray.

Company 12

Company Tools Incentives Participative 12

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 30, 2023

The common conception of a working life is one of a fairly linear career progression, with earnings rising alongside our seniority and experience. The evolution of wages A recent study from Bocconi University explores the various factors that may contribute to changes in income throughout our careers.

Career 115

Career Training Rate of Return Education 115

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Department of Veterans Affairs was in crisis. Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. In 2014, the U.S. Could the organization turn itself around?

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 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? They had incentives to do so, but they could easily refuse. At a time of profound volatility in the U.S.

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Are there peculiar features of African entrepreneurship we may consider relevant to big global debates on development and sustainability? We had explained the talent churn away as a consequence of small, sub-optimal, unscalable businesses that failed to give talented managers a vision of personal career growth.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 16

Roundtable Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

In Drive , Pink asserts that “carrot and stick” approaches (such as bonuses and incentives) work when the task is straight forward, but as soon as it requires creativity and more complex thinking, the “if you do this, then you get that” approach to rewards doesn’t work…and worse, it can backfire. So back to Drive.

Motivation 37

Motivation Long-term Short-term Incentives 37

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

But if culture is developed outside of strategy, if it’s not driven by strategy, then said culture can become a very dangerous intoxicant. It is something you're thinking about and planning for, therefore it is part of the overall strategy being developed. Culture is important – it is very important. What say you?

Blog 366

Blog Strategy Brand Bottom-up 366

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. The audit committee of the board would not sign off on behalf of the deals, which just kept happening and developing secret lives of their own. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Hispanic community is eager to lead, innovate, and help America reclaim its foundational values, but it needs a platform where their voices can safely and objectively express the things they are thinking about healthcare, jobs, immigration reform, the economy, and career advancement. Elevate the influence of Hispanics.

Policies 15

Policies Short-term Education Diversity 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Hispanic community is eager to lead, innovate, and help America reclaim its foundational values, but it needs a platform where their voices can safely and objectively express the things they are thinking about healthcare, jobs, immigration reform, the economy, and career advancement. Elevate the influence of Hispanics.

Policies 8

Policies Short-term Education Diversity 8