HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

With one of the largest and most diversified software companies such as Adobe, you must have a unique perspective on what is essential with core competencies for leaders navigating key challenges in the future of work? As a global software company, we have decades of experience with software teams who are geographically distributed.

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HR Digest

MAY 26, 2023

76 percent recognized that software-related jobs such as IT is probable to witness a positive impact and wide-scale adoption of generative AI in their businesses. Some of the key takeaways from the survey include but are not limited to: 72 percent of respondents said that generative AI can enhance productivity in the workplace.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Leadership Training Programs Managers are leaders, albeit on a smaller scale than their employers. Managers also play a role in shaping future leaders so to help managers succeed, leadership training is important. This requires us to answer how HR can support managers as well, so let’s look at some ways to help managers succeed.

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HR Digest

MAY 15, 2024

Instructional Design : Develop engaging and effective training content, incorporating a variety of instructional methods, such as interactive presentations, hands-on exercises, case studies, and virtual simulations, to cater to different learning styles.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 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 year before, prompted by all this, Lumiscape’s leadership had decided to pivot from a sales model to a subscription model. Cameron sighed.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2010

He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

As the Chairman and CEO of Mzinga, a company that provides social software to businesses. Pitfall #9: Developing your own social software and analytics solutions. Do what you do best and outsource the software and community building to the experts. Quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy. Not too many would.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

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. He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance.

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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. Yes, blogs are fun to read and to write – and they can also be used to grow your business, engage business partners, and establish thought-leadership.

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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. Indeed, it’s possible to make money AND make nice.

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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). Women tend to have less ego tied up in leadership. And that’s a good thing, because traditional leadership no longer works in the social business world.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

She suggests “immersing yourself in your topic area” by regularly attending industry conferences, enrolling in a class or specialized certification program, or taking on a leadership role in a relevant professional organization. Don’t keep your knowledge under wraps. You’re being strategic. Slouch as you talk.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

For Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Tencent, and Facebook, making bots and software assistants more human — and more humane — has become a strategic UX imperative. Microsoft’s Tay offers a painfully superb — and superbly painful — real-world case study of how networked abuse shapes UX.

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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. Within weeks he had secured a contract with a major airline to accelerate kiosk rollout in 20 airports and buy software upgrades across their locations. Tom interjected. "I

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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

JUNE 18, 2014

Consider the case study unfolding right now in Brazil at the World Cup. Being honest and never dissembling is very consistent with the bland axioms of a “feel good” leadership discourse, but as in the case of sports, it is also remarkably inconsistent with what actually goes on in the real world. and the U.K.

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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. Do: Make sure your team understands that feedback is a shared leadership responsibility. Case study #1: Create opportunities for team and individual reflection. Case study #2: Focus on empowering your team.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

But most of us need a little extra motivation, especially for boring work like recording billable hours, uncomfortable tasks like facing awkward conversations with dissatisfied clients, or major projects like writing a complex case study. Installing or tweaking a piece of software you’ve been eager to use. Concurrent.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2013

Ancona says that many companies include teamwork as a core competency in their leadership development models. Case study#1: Set a team purpose and measure against it. Case study #2: Let them improve their skills. He purchased a multi-license agreement to instructional design software. "I

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Last month, my daughters’ high school experienced a major technical glitch in their student absentee reporting software that caused hundreds of parents to be sent emails informing them that their child hadn’t shown up for school that day.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2014

“Managers will never learn the truth about a company unless they have employees’ trust,” explains Jim Dougherty, a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and veteran software CEO. Instead of casting blame for layoffs or poor profits, stress that it is the company — and your own leadership — that need to improve. Here’s how.

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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

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

AUGUST 2, 2018

Case Study #1: Make small adjustments to your environment, and look for ways to enhance your job description. “Instead, I began to approach my job as one in which my success was judged by whether or not my colleagues began to adhere to a vision of excellent communication, servant leadership, and team success.

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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

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

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. We pride ourselves on being a multinational leadership team.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

But 20th-century, capital "H" Hierarchy (a sort of hardware) and the managerial processes that run on it (a sort of software) do not handle transformation well. The data, case studies, and personal anecdotes to this effect abound.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

After all, roles like captaining a college field hockey team or editing a school literary magazine provide valuable leadership experience. ” CQ, according to Hill, is a critical component of leadership “given the complexity of management today. She also suggests asking, “How do you spend your time outside of work?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

I still remember when Steve Jobs was featured in business school case studies as an example of bad leadership style. Professor Elizabeth Pontikes of the University of Chicago and I examined thousands of software firms over more than a decade. When things go poorly for a nonconformist, how easy it is to call them the fool.

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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

JULY 22, 2015

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. Leadership also wanted to improve service delivered to property taxpayers and municipalities.

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