HR Digest

MAY 26, 2023

Following the introduction of ChatGPT, a popular generative AI tool developed by Microsoft-backed OpenAI, generative AI’s impact on the workplace has become a buzzworthy topic in the corporate landscape. 62 percent of participants believed that AI could encourage innovation to guide the development of novel products and services.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

We’re working hard to enable digital-first workflows across our Adobe employee experience—from onboarding new employees, virtual collaboration tools, and learning and development opportunities. As a global software company, we have decades of experience with software teams who are geographically distributed.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2016

When we looked at thirty-plus case studies of successful companies, we found that they all share an audacious approach to disruption. Case in point: Adobe. Countless rivals and the emergence of the Cloud diminished Adobe’s primacy in design software and products. They find a way to matter.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Train your middle managers on quality to build a right leadership ecosystem. Organize events like group discussions and brainstorming sessions to promote ideas, share success stories, best practices and project case studies. Deliver induction trainings to all new joinees and constantly train them thereafter. Don’t Kill It!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. His leadership position was one of the many concessions Almond had made to lure the company into the joint venture.). The room was already packed when Liu Peijin walked in.

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QAspire

JUNE 29, 2010

Thanks Sir for sharing this Master Piece… Regards, Jay Chhaya By Tanmay , June 30, 2010 @ 10:11 am @Jay - Thanks for sharing the example of Sachin Tendulkar - whose conduct is a case study for lot of management and leadership folks. Focusing on now helps you to concentrate on immediate priority, and do it well.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Instead of a monolithic one-way interaction, business is now being conducted through constant and meaningful two-way conversations between organizations and constituents – at every stage of organizational development. And it’s a good thing, too. And building your own Social Nation is increasingly necessary in the business world.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

As the Chairman and CEO of Mzinga, a company that provides social software to businesses. When you stop to think about it, you’ll realize that your fans and followers are essentially volunteering their time and energy to serve as developers, sounding boards, and advertisements for your company. Not too many would.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

” Develop expertise. This won’t happen overnight, but you can take steps to develop business-critical expertise and knowhow. Take steps to develop expertise by attending conferences or taking on a leadership role in a professional organization. Don’t keep your knowledge under wraps. Slouch as you talk.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Unfortunately, with the focus on profit, solution placement, timelines, and commissions, the potential for true servant-leadership has been overlooked. I’ve developed a new type of question (Facilitative Question) to help people uncover their unconscious criteria to make new decisions, or re-weight old beliefs.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As the chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , a company that provides social software to businesses, quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy. Then read on for eight etiquette lessons—rules that will help you successfully develop a community of supporters who will help your business relationships prosper: Pretend you’re offline.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Whether you’re a man or a woman, it’s time to start embracing your feminine side (and yes, many women have squelched their natural leadership style for far too long). Commit to developing and improving your social and emotional skill sets. Women tend to have less ego tied up in leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

There needs to be an expectation within the team this is a shared leadership responsibility,” he says. One of your goals is to develop your team’s capacity to give feedback and help people get used to articulating how they feel the team is doing.” Do: Make sure your team understands that feedback is a shared leadership responsibility.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

Ancona says that many companies include teamwork as a core competency in their leadership development models. Every six months or so, take a close look at the group''s progress, noting its accomplishments, where it has succeeded, and how it can further develop. Case study#1: Set a team purpose and measure against it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. People are also being asked by their bosses or HR to attend conferences, read case studies, watch videos, and try their hand at simulations, all with the goal of picking up new ideas and techniques. Make it a stretch.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

In my experience — consulting on gender with hundreds of companies — this is rarely the case. Leadership teams are usually not aligned on gender issues and objectives. It takes deft leadership skilled at understanding both the rational and emotional issues involved — for everyone. This is a key leadership task.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

That's why it's usually the newcomers, rather than the incumbents, who upend industry rules (think of Apple in music, Amazon in web services, or Salesforce in enterprise software). In one recent McKinsey study, only 24% of respondents felt that their company wouldn't benefit from a more robust pipeline of new ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. It's essential for your new responsibilities in developing market strategies for your region.". I was thinking through my kiosk-services development project.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

But there is one important difference —managing managers also requires leadership coaching: you have to coach “managers to develop the culture and capabilities that their team members need,” says Linda Hill, professor at Harvard Business School and coauthor of Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

’” The good news is that, “people can develop their capacity to lead,” says Linda Hill, professor at Harvard Business School and the coauthor of Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader. “It’s your job to help other people develop.” “Can he see the big picture?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

If you’re annoyed at your colleague’s desire to call the shots, she’s highly likely to feel the same way about you, adds Brian Uzzi, professor of leadership and organizational change at Kellogg and coauthor of the HBR article “ Make Your Enemies Your Allies.” Case Study #1: Ask for clarity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

“There are a wide variety of reasons to choose a job sharing arrangement — it might be to take care of a dependent, to work another job, or to advance one’s education,” says Stew Friedman, a professor of management at the Wharton School and author of Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life. Case study #2: Put respect first.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Reporting to an indecisive boss is an unquestionably “challenging and frustrating situation,” says Sydney Finkelstein, the Director of the Leadership Center at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and author of the book, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Manage the Flow of Talent. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

"It''s never foolish to begin preparing for a transition no matter how many years away it is or where you are in your career," says Muriel Maignan Wilkins, coauthor of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence. Seize leadership opportunities, no matter how small. Look for the white space.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Case study #1: When in doubt, over-communicate. Czarina Walker, the founder and CEO of InfiniEDGE Software, had a crisis on her hands. She had recently taken over the leadership of a combined team of engineers and creative employees for a new project. Case study #2: Build connections outside the office.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Fernández-Aráoz agrees: “What you should not do is ask direct questions, like ‘Tell me about your leadership style,’” he says. Ask direct questions about leadership style — you’re unlikely to get an honest answer, and they might signal that you don’t want the job.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

Brock is a Channel Partner with The Ken Blanchard Companies, an executive leadership coach, servant leader, and a man of integrity. Is it possible to help our people develop good character or do we simply accept that if they don’t have good character by adulthood, they never will? He put his own plan in place.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

Case Study #1: The power of enthusiastic peers. Though she liked the stability of her role as head of communications for the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), which finances private-sector ventures in developing countries, she could feel her interest in her role beginning to wane. Move on hastily.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Its most successful division, mobile telephony, was looking for a new head of software development at headquarters in Seoul. Hanguk’s leadership would be watching the project closely, because expansion to the Arab world was one of its top strategic objectives. I’ll have 25 developers reporting to me.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

. “Of course, people like to feel trusted and depended on, but there are drawbacks: you may not get the recognition or appreciation you need,” says Annie McKee, cofounder of Teleos Leadership Institute and author of several books on leadership, including Primal Leadership. Step into leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2016

Although GGRC’s staff often develop great empathy for individual clients, going to heroic lengths to help clients navigate the administrative maze, the system was not designed to make life easy for clients or staff members. A second is called “Hybrid Social Worker 2.0.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

“Don’t walk away, and don’t give up,” he says, “Work your way up the food chain and take it to the top” of the executive leadership if you need to. Case Study #1: Be vigilant about following up and seek legal advice when needed. Be persistent about seeking payment, advises Younger.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2017

Case Study #1: Offer solutions and be open to advice. A year into her job as vice president of product strategy at Ceridian, Lisa Sterling was promoted to chief people officer of the Minneapolis-based provider of human resources software. He also gave her some good coaching and advice about leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

And as the world continues to digitize and almost every product and service becomes more driven by (or at least integrated with) software, this need grows even stronger. With software, however, the relationship between we’ve finished building it and it has the effect we intended is much less clear.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Case Study #1: Clarify in order to move forward. And his negative review had a lasting effect on him: Today, he’s the founder and CEO of Work Compass, which creates online performance reviews and performance management software for companies. Case Study #2: Be proactive about your improvement.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

They try to address more objectives than are reasonable for any software system. Broadcast this message loud and clear from the CEO and sales leadership. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. This helps filter out business you shouldn’t pursue.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

There’s an ever-increasing demand for people who can leverage software to analyze, understand, and make day-to-day business decisions based on data. Because of this, a fourth motivational principle must be added: personal growth and development. Today, the bar for computer proficiency is set much higher.

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