Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Giving also produces a lot of serotonin in our brains – much needed if there is a crisis or problem. Sometimes a nice compliment can go a lot further than a reward or an incentive. Too often leaders and managers miss out on marking achievements and innovations… their own as well as those of others!

Leadership 257

Leadership Blog Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 257

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

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

_After all, culture is defined by the behaviors that are incented and repeated inside your company. Culture is left to the human resouorces department, or just happens as a consequence of the company policies and practices. _I wrote a post on my experience on this topic a couple months back.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I mean the real, formal, sit down and talk type of meetings that allow the employee, peer, or manager to say whats on their mind. It also has helped us to create better relationships since we communicate before hand and not just during times of crisis. It may often take creative time management to fit meetings in between tasks.

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Blog Greenleaf Maslow Follow-up 124

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

Key success factors to help you reach the results you want, include: Regular Team Review of Goals & Actions (Quarterly) Hold Team Accountable To One Another Reward Successes & Celebrate Results Correct Mistakes & “Penalize” Failure (deal with non-performance quickly) Upgrade Team & Trade Away Underperformers Align Incentives with (..)

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Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

Roundtable Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Although most leaders would acknowledge that command and control approaches to management no longer work, many grumble that they wish it would (it’s much easier to dictate direction than to engage in dialog). There’s something wrong with a system that forces you to incent behaviours that are core to your business strategy.

Motivation 37

Motivation Long-term Short-term Incentives 37

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

As graduates explain their career choices to family and friends, they will confront the idea that our best and brightest are wasting their talent in an industry that doesn’t do anything worthwhile. But this anti-finance sentiment is detached from the reality of the profession and obscures the promise and peril of a career in finance.

Finance 8

Finance Insurance Career Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Here are five questions to ask: Do your company’s incentives match its policies? But it is the employee incentives that really matter. What’s the tone from upper management? Building a career of positive productivity and learning is hard enough in a company that helps you along.

Ethics 8

Ethics Company Incentives Policies 8

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. The essence of managing cognitive bias is to realize that it is unavoidable, it is an essential part of being human."

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

inhabitant of what is now looking to be the next epicenter of the Euro crisis (Italy), argued that we can never get anywhere because we keep getting halfway there. Europe's leaders keep taking steps that get them halfway (or maybe a third of the way, or a tenth of the way) to resolving the region's ongoing crisis.

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Crisis Finance Politics Incentives 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. I believe in empathy, in kindness… and in love.

Leadership 41

Leadership Blog Video Bottom-up 41

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

It's notable that in the wake of the mortgage crisis, the American workforce isn't as mobile. On our careers site, we're seeing wages rise for specialized technology positions. Hiring managers will have to closely monitor what competitors are offering to retain top employees and recruit new ones — for any job, at any level.

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Skills Incentives Training Positioning 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

the management consultancy. Such plans frequently include giving managers financial incentives to do what they should have done before — concentrating on the most promising lines, selling off dud businesses, and "leaning down" operations, often including headcount. Vulture capitalism ," as Governor Perry has suggested?

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Due Diligence Incentives Hedge Collins 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Then again, that’s sort of what Bogle’s been doing since 1974, when he took a crisis that was all about him — he’d been fired by his business partners — and somewhat inadvertently turned it into something that was about defending the interests of retail investors everywhere. So I’ll stick with Bogle.

Finance 8

Finance Crisis Motivation CEO 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

How they manage conflict. Reply Gwyn Teatro November 23, 2010 at 11:53 pm Susan, Yes, the management principles of the Industrial Age are, if nothing else, remarkably tenacious. You have given me incentive to do that. In my observation, it always seems to come down to how team members communicate with each other.

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Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ This archaic mindset flies in the face of progressive supply chain management, which successful companies now embrace. While frying some fish, immunity lets other more culpable ones off the hook.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

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?

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. 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?

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System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

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. El-Erian said he decided to leave after receiving a note from his 10-year old daughter outlining 22 milestones in her life that he had missed.

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CIO CFO Crisis Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I spent a dozen years there — a tenure that overlapped with Dudley’s — went on to work at several other firms, and then, after the financial crisis, decided to go back to school. As I reflected upon my career at Goldman Sachs, though, what stood out was the importance of its organizational structure. I now have a Ph.D.

Banking 8

Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

My think-tank colleagues and I were stunned to see how many concurrent businesses the typical entrepreneur owns and manages in Africa. 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 15

Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 15

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. Think carefully about each of these four elements: Incentives are a basic element of doing good work. In the U.S.

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Company Tools Incentives Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

The personae include Wharton management professor Daniel Raff, who points out the dangers of Amazon’s growing control over cultural products, and venture capitalist David Pakman, who takes the kind of position a venture capitalist would, namely that publishers need to wake up to the realities of the digital world.

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Industry Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

About a third (32%) were CEOs or presidents; 31% were division/business unit heads; 30% were senior managers reporting to division/business unit heads; and 7% were in investment or professional services firms. Incentive systems should discourage self-interested behavior. That fosters honesty, debate and better decisions.

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CEO Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2011

If there is a bubble and it does burst, it stands to reason that the schools that weather the crisis relatively well will be those that provide considerable educational value. Incentives encourage faculty to conform to this behavior as administrators naturally prefer more tuition revenue to less.

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Education Human Capital Class CFO 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 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