Lead Change Blog

MARCH 28, 2017

I had studied relentlessly and asked to be put on complex projects that drilled deep into the analytical side of my brain so I would be ready to work with Information Technology teams. A few weeks later, still ecstatic about my new career path, I felt divided … unsettled … incapable … like an imposter. You are not alone.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I first became a manager, I didn’t consider sharing personal stories. During the course of my career, I learned that sharing the personal is often important. OCLC is an information technology organization providing management systems, discovery, cataloging, resource sharing and digital services to global libraries of all types.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Reaching the apex of the career ladder by gradually getting promoted to the top is a thing of the past. From my experience as a career coach, career ladders in most organizations have not existed for at least fifteen years. Over time, the company began to bulge with managers. Look laterally for career moves.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

He is credited with inventing the phonograph, the motion picture camera, the alkaline battery, and, most importantly, the electric light bulb and the accompanying distribution system for electric power. For example, Bezos has developed deep expertise in software engineering, robotics, information technology, devices (e.g.,

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2012

The best way to understand the trajectory of your high performance career tomorrow is to look at what's happening to college undergraduates today. Of course, global giants like IBM, Amazon and Google have already begun importing predictive performance analytics to manage their human capital portfolios.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

If you are sitting in a job interview and hear the words "dotted line reporting," you have just encountered the world of matrix management. Matrix reporting systems are designed to keep people working together and not at cross purposes. Are your managers aligned? Getting caught in the middle might cost you your job.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

In the global economy, can analytic practitioners be hugely successful in their careers while going unnoticed? The case illustrates how information technology, innovatively, insightfully and courageously deployed, can change the structure of an industry. sas com Magazine can also be accessed online at www.sas.com/sascom.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

A complicated system is somewhat like a complicated recipe. In a complex system, however, elements can potentially interact in different ways each time because they are interdependent. In a complex system, however, elements can potentially interact in different ways each time because they are interdependent.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. CIOs are being tasked with managing internal business systems, cloud-based services, big data innovation, data security, and the 24x7 needs of global customers who access company data on personal devices. focus and vision.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. IT systems need constant tweaking, updating, or replacing, or else they become an inefficient drag on the organization. And the delay in processing veterans’ records was exacerbated by the Department of Defense and VA using incompatible systems for medical records.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. What we find is that job design, hiring profiles, and business processes play a significant part in optimizing a work system," Coco said. But it's also unusual.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

That’s bad news and worse management. In pre-Big Data days, for example, a hotel chain used some pretty sophisticated mathematics, data mining, and time series analysis to coordinate its yield management pricing and promotion efforts. For the most part, local managers followed the yield management rules.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. These include infant safety and injury prevention, social work, legal advocacy, case management, tutoring, fitness classes, nutrition and lactation, mental health, and dental care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

The potential benefits of workplace variability are numerous — increased morale, motivation, and the ability to attract and retain talent — yet many managers don’t know where to start. Even the most employee-oriented managers have concerns about having employees work outside of normal work hours or at places other than the office.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

This means that companies must leave behind traditional models of proprietary systems, rigid processes, and reliance on a few longtime partners and move toward models that embrace open and flexible structures in which partners can solve business problems together. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies. The reason?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

AI, expert systems, and business intelligence have been with us for decades, but this time the reality almost matches the rhetoric, driven by the exponential growth in technology capabilities (e.g., ’ the system used hundreds of scoring engines, and all the hypotheses were fed through the different engines and scored in parallel.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

His career has always been demanding- long hours, lots of travel, ultra-high performance standards (which he always has met or exceeded). The timing of the request also helped my friend; there had recently been conspicuous turnover among mid-career professionals at this firm. This is particularly true of knowledge work.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Remember the summer of 2001 when CIA Director George Tenet said of the Al-Qaeda threat "the system was blinking red" but few around him seemed to grasp the urgency? A reasonable career move would be to specialize in "lower level" attacks like, well, corporate espionage and intellectual property theft. But the Internet has now grown up.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Management education today is largely about educating for judgment —developing future leaders’ pattern-matching abilities, usually via exposure to a lot of case studies and other examples, so that they’ll be able to confidently navigate the business landscape. Information & technology' Big Data Demands Big Context.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

But not every manager is jumping on board with data. From that work, I''ve distilled six bad habits that stymie managers and companies from taking full advantage of their data. We''ve all met managers who say things like, "I''ve been working in this industry twenty-five years and I''ve seen it all. You rig the system.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Recruiters, HR managers, and investors have always sought better ways of identifying who fits and has potential, and how to allocate opportunities to them. But what if these new possibilities—used by recruiters and managers to efficiently and objectively get the best talent—only bake in current inequities? Or create new ones?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

A few years ago Dave Ulrich, a management thought leader from the University of Michigan, made a comment I found both insightful and profound: “ Every leader needs to have a model of organization design.” An effective organization design model guides a manager in answering five fundamental questions in a thoughtful and well-integrated way.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If more of them can be identified, developed, and appointed, we believe the whole education system will improve. They often arrive with a reputation for being able to turn around a school quickly, as they’ve done this many times before in their career. So they looked around for a different career and discovered teaching.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

Bell Labs led fundamental work in physics, information theory, computing, wireless telephony, and quality control that underpins much of today's economy. I started my career as what would now be called a data analyst, focused on network performance, essentially trying to get more bits from calling to called party.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Watson's success was hailed as both precursor and avatar of a rapidly emerging genre of intelligent systems. Specifying rules and knowledge domains for "expert systems" was state-of-the art. Your career prospects are not bright if a machine has little to learn from you. Watson didn't win because it "knew" more.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. ” Yet that poses a problem for managers. vincent tsui FOR HBR. Since World War II, the U.S. has been an innovation superpower.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It described the newspapers own request under the Freedom of Information Act for the New York Department of Educations performance ratings of the roughly 12,000 public city school teachers in its system. His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

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