HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

Lead purposeful and inclusive digital-first meetings: When managing hybrid teams, leaders must think asynchronously and reconsider if a meeting is necessary, be diligent about sharing meeting agendas and pre-reads ahead of time, as well as capture and share action items post-meeting. Gloria Chen, CHRO, Adobe.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 22, 2016

I suggest that entrepreneurs create an “ideal customer” document to make sure all new customers fit the mold. Make sure that your marketing document (and a “marketing document” for the purposes of this discussion can mean anything from a website, landing page, advertisement [print or online banner], direct mail letter, email, etc.)

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

If there is one maxim which describes the frustration many C-suite executives and senior level managers feel when trying to trying to get a strategy executed, it is: “People know what they are supposed to do. They just don’t do it.”. Change Adoption Phase 2: Commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Tim Powell, Charlene’s director of social media, showed up with Andrea Kemp, the company’s account manager from Wrigley & Walters. Crisis management Social media'

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

Sadly, it didn’t take very long to realize that the plant had a very traditional management style, very traditionally combative labor/management relations, and a typical blame-and-shame, command-and-control environment that made people miserable and didn’t deliver quality to the customer or any of the right business results.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

” Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The tools and documents that VV and Reza had developed to help facilitate the funding process were another potential source of revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. At the start of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, it was a catalog of minor operational and logistical problems that led journalists to start reporting on "the glitch Games."

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Edwards Deming’s process management theory. As the inquiry continued, the system was eventually able to document significant declines in physician variation. Correctly managed, they lead naturally to patient-centered care. We didn’t seek to dictate that people adopt management practices that we thought were wise.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. How can you make core business operations more sustainable? Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Co. To begin, each of our partners has shared documentation of work they are doing to improve the future sustainability of their company. Climate Change on HBR.org.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Yet, more than 50 years after Peter Drucker devised the term knowledge worker, it is quite disappointing to peer inside the operations of any large organization and see how little of their time knowledge workers actually spend on higher-order thinking tasks. The Future of Operations. No underlying systems programming logic is touched.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

A change in sales or other customer-acquisition processes, for example, will affect multiple aspects of their business models: the types of orders their firms get, capacity planning, operations, delivery, post-sales requirements, and daily interactions among these groups. Manage each minute.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Document how employee actions or inactions might contribute to the risks described above, then develop a list of desired behaviors and guidelines for making it a simple as possible for staff to adopt them. No two organizations are the same, and neither are the cultures and contexts in which they operate.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

These measures represent the level of adherence to evidence-based standards of care achieved by the hospitals, as documented on patients’ medical records. doctors and nurses), the speed of delivery of help, the explanation of procedures, the management of pain, and the post-treatment instructions for recovery.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

During the decade he headed the company (1992 – 2002), Tyco grew from a small New Hampshire conglomerate into a global giant operating in more than 100 countries with 250,000 employees and $40 billion in annual revenue. Like many people, I read over and over again that Dennis Kozlowski was a bad man.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

The best managers know when it’s time to increase your pay for a job well done. And how can you make it easier for your manager to say yes? It can be difficult to approach your manager for a raise. It can be difficult to approach your manager for a raise. Managing Yourself Article. How do you prepare for it?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. He pulled a document from his briefcase and handed it to her. She found a bench and pulled the document out of her purse. My lawyers have drafted a contract."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

After you “sign all the documents that need to be signed” and let “your emotions” cool, “schedule a meeting to debrief,” he says. “You have a golden moment in your job search where you’re operating at peak confidence and energy. ” Pace yourself. ” Keep it short and upbeat.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The manager of the frozen-vegetables plant was pushing him to make the leap. ” Pete nodded and handed out the relevant documents. Organics were another option.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

How could she or any of the other directors provide fiscal oversight without access to details of the company’s operations or accounting? s father, Bill Offutt, who had founded the company and remained its chairman, didn’t seem bothered by the lack of documentation. Some months back, J.P. It didn’t help that J.P.’s It burned Sarah up.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

This holds for corporate operating units and departments. You must always educate corporate opinion makers on how you function… and the skill with which you operate. Top management must endorse corporate imaging and other forms of practice development, if your company is to grow and prosper. Visioning document.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Look to those who aren’t just saying they are experts but can demonstrate some successful examples or case studies from their expertise.​ Janitorial and Cleaning Services Operating a business from your home and staying on top of cleaning can be tough.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Most companies manage projects in terms of outputs, not outcomes. Managers working in this context can be forgiven for thinking that their job is simply to finish making something. And yet our management culture and tools are set up to work in terms of outputs. Case Study: Putting This into Practice.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

These pointers are offered to help manage time and resources. Inevitably, when high-level forums are organized, the juniors, mid-managers and self-marketers infiltrate and take over… which chases us away. There is no converting them to your more enlightened way of thinking and operating. Spot them and avoid them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2016

However, looking at the surveys and consulting reports, it is unclear what the precise use cases are that will drive this positive ROI from big data. Our goal in this article is to offer specific, real-world case studies to show how big data has provided value for companies that have worked with Microsoft’s analytics teams.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

A Harvard Business School case study that Robert Huckman, Sam Travers, and I wrote earlier this year documents what came next. ” In this case, McDonald set out to transform the design of VA to help the organization better achieve its mission for veterans. The stakes, in other words, were high.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

For too many managers, the technology’s costs often rival its benefits. Any HR manager using such a system needs to be aware of its limitations and have a plan for dealing with them… Algorithms are, in part, our opinions embedded in code. Smarter algorithms require smarter risk management.

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Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

Yet the reality is that data centers are essential — not just to tech businesses but to any organization that uses the internet to operate (that covers nearly all of them, doesn't it?). Sweden is starting to look like a needle — a perfect site," said Michael Kirkland, communications manager at Facebook.

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