HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

By emphasizing communication skills in the performance evaluation process, employers can also encourage their employees to develop their own unique communication styles. Provide opportunities for training and development, and recognize and reward those who excel in leadership. Provides constructive feedback in a supportive manner.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Being sharp means being succinct. Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Additionally know what you have to trade.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. HR and talent development roles with General Motors Australia.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

With the newspaper industry being what it is, the employees of the Trib had some choices to make. They could leave and hope to find another job in their profession, they could stay and grit it out or they could stay and try to improve their career prospects by joining in on the Animal House leadership style.

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How To Handbook Executive Coaching Case Study 169

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Wouldn’t that give American industry, or the industry of any culture, an important leg up? It’s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington’s corridors of power, they didn’t even stand out.” The developers of the ulcer drug at C. Integrity is no simple matter. PERSEVERANCE.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

General Charles Jacoby is a military leader whose career culminated as four-star Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Thus, this mindset must be deliberately developed and nurtured by senior leaders – and exemplified in their own behaviors. Leo Tilman is the founder of Tilman & Company, Inc.

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Agility How To Decentralization Morale 87

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

With the virtual disappearance of major white-collar employers like Eastman Kodak and Westinghouse — once fairly reliable career on-ramps — young talent is focusing on entrepreneurship as a path forward. They received acclaim and took meetings with heavyweights at industry conferences. Not bad, but hardly Zuckerbergian.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Wouldn''t that give American industry, or the industry of any culture, an important leg up? It''s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington''s corridors of power, they didn''t even stand Out." PERSEVERANCE The developers of the ulcer drug at C. INTEGRITY Integrity is no simple matter.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. Year-on-year price increases for existing therapies have allowed the industry to maintain profitability, but those short-term fixes have come at a heavy cost: decreased public satisfaction with the industry and increased political scrutiny.

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Innovation Company Incentives Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

This is called Functional Fixedness and while you probably won''t need to build a fort during your professional career, chances are you do suffer from it and it is impacting your work. I''m actually glad it exists because if it didn''t, my industry probably wouldn''t exist. How can I be so sure? you''re human, right?

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Innovation Open-book Objective Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

But as companies get bigger, they have a harder and harder time staying close to their customers and maintaining the sharp, ground-level instincts of a younger company. Most started out as their company’s first salesperson, its first product developer, or both. Then our head of supply chain would do the same.

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Company Hotels Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

Yet many other women have managed to build highly successful careers with degrees in STEM disciplines. Sticking with her authentic, collaborative leadership style paid off: Ramos-Kwok won over the team and developed a reputation as an exceptional leader, leading to further management opportunities. How did they do it? Hone your brand.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

—Andrea Ovans Getting the Vapors Kodak Moment The Economist With the European Parliament set to vote next week on whether electronic cigarettes should be regulated as medical products, this is a good time to reflect on the inroads this disruptive technology is making in the slow-moving, not-very-innovative tobacco industry.

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Management Health Care Insurance Sharpe 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Savvy working parents know that it takes more than a home office to make remote work work for their organizations, careers, and families: It takes conscious effort and some specific, effective tactics — which you can start using today. Wear what makes you feel sharp and confident. Frame it in business terms.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

When we interviewed 45 such people across 39 companies in 8 industries in the United States and Europe, we found that by identifying low-value tasks to either drop completely, delegate to someone else or outsource, the average worker gained back roughly one day a week they could use for more important tasks.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

The longer version is that an intentional leader revolutionized the academic institution of High Point University with powerful and practical business principles, which often received sharp criticism but ultimately proved to be wildly successful. It turns out that academia, like most professions and industries, values the status quo. .

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

I therefore committed my professional career to research how to make innovations happen. But the tobacco industry worldwide, in fact, has pledged to do just that. For instance, I challenged businesses to design a $300 house for the poor. Together, they represent a significant percentage of the world’s tobacco supply chain.

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Supply Chain Licensing Sharpe Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Founded in the 1930s, Lego developed a repeatable model that allowed it to grow for decades. In the photography industry, Leica provides a sharp example of how adding new capabilities can help a company reverse free fall. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue. Nothing about free fall is easy.

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