Chart Your Course

APRIL 29, 2013

Part of being a leader is managing change. Your business is adding a new time-management system, which requires employees to log their hours on specific projects. Manage perceptions. So the real misstep was not revoking the telecommute option at Yahoo!, As Martin Luther King Jr.

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White Paper Human Resources Consensus Case Study 231

Chart Your Course

APRIL 13, 2013

A recent study from Dale Carnegie Training found that only 23 percent (that’s one in four!) of non-management workers reported being engaged at their current job. They also provide more than double the market average in training time for entry-level employees, and offer clear paths for advancement into management.

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White Paper Case Study Human Resources Newsletter 157

Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

They ride the ups and downs of the economy more closely than the healthcare, government, or high-tech sectors, and average two to three times the rate of employee turnover, according to 2012 numbers from the Society for Human Resource Management. Managers meet regularly, not just annually, with individual employees.

Strategy 133

Strategy White Paper Human Resources Case Study 133

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

We hear so much now about the building and managing of one’s “Personal Brand” as the key to success. Coca-Cola’s brand is micro-managed by teams of professionals working on nothing else. This raises the question: can (or should) a person even begin to undertake a project like self-branding? don’t encroach!

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Brand Conference Wilde Politics 196

Chart Your Course

JANUARY 20, 2015

But a recent Chart Your Course International project led by Greg Smith and Patricio Porras not only achieved success for Riverside Auto Group but outlined a blueprint that virtually every company can follow when trying to change its culture. Among the successes of this project are: Service department sales up 22% in less than one year.

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White Paper Case Study Human Resources Hotels 100

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Other times it involves imbedding structural elements into your overall management and leadership system, but in both cases it works. A manager who changes a command from the general “get this project done,” to the specific by assigning one particular task to each team member likely automates a better outcome.

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Film Leadership Franchising System 166

Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

This focus on short-term challenges neglects the development of essential management and leadership skills. Work Based Learning Lead, phs group I know more about budgeting, about innovation, about how to manage the finance side of a business, I know more about commerciality and strategy.

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Productivity Products Short-term Proposal 52

Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

This focus on short-term challenges neglects the development of essential management and leadership skills. Work Based Learning Lead, phs I know more about budgeting, about innovation, about how to manage the finance side of a business, I know more about commerciality and strategy.

Productivity 52

Productivity Products Short-term Proposal 52

Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

They ride the ups and downs of the economy more closely than the healthcare, government, or high-tech sectors, and average two to three times the rate of employee turnover, according to 2012 numbers from the Society for Human Resource Management. Managers meet regularly, not just annually, with individual employees.

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White Paper Case Study Class Newsletter 100

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 24, 2016

The term “drive performance” is popular in a bottom-line, transactional world made up of managers and executives who lead through their positional authority. What makes them stand out is an intrinsic motivation to share power and release control. Yet over the years I have learned that leadership culture has changed.

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Loyalty Development Leadership Case Study 150

Eric Jacobson

MAY 11, 2021

If they’ve been a product manager or a salesperson in the past, they’ll be better able to recruit individuals to lead that function for their startup. The sharks do an excellent job of probing an entrepreneur’s motivations and probing for problems with a venture’s product design and marketing plans. Eisenmann : The show is terrific!

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Succession Entrepreneur Case Study Apparel 65

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I call this ‘managing yourself smart,’ and here are some guidelines to help navigate social media. Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! Inspire and motivate.

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Guidelines Management Media Newsletter 62

Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Management tries to make a substantial difference in people’s lives beyond merely providing a place to work and a paycheck at the end of the month. ” Norm Miller and other top executives hold regular prayer meetings as part of their management responsibilities, and look to God for guidance in day-to-day business decisions.

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Company Mission Statement Participative Conference 195

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground.

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Case Study CFO Bottom-up Operations 11

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Experience Gathering – Circumstances within and outside your control caused the projects to fail. Develop attitudes, behaviors and skills as the motivator to create bigger successes. By studying swings of the pendulum (likelihoods of failures), one better understands their progress. Grooming – The team let you down.

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Succession Due Diligence Budgeting Risk Management 78

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

When you’re managing managers, your responsibilities are two-fold: you need to make sure they’re producing good work (as with any employee) and that they’re effectively supporting their teams. Here’s how you can fill in the gap and help your direct reports be great managers. What the Experts Say.

Management 12

Management How To Report Learning-by-Doing 12

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 15, 2018

And, sprinkled throughout are motivating leadership quotes. Almost everyone was given some form of leadership responsibility, which meant I was constantly surrounded by living, breathing case studies. The military gave me more lessons by observation than I can count! Some were exceptional, some left a bit to be desired.

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Books Decentralization Learning-by-Doing Influence 50

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Study some of the most interesting and diverse group of companies such as Google, Twinings, Dropbox and even Wimbledon and you end up with fascinating stories, case studies, and research useful to every brand. Nick Liddell is Director of Consulting and Richard Buchanan is Managing Director and a founding partner.

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Wilde Brand Open-book Creativity 67

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Managing your star performers should be no sweat, right? How do you manage someone who is knocking it out of the park? Whether your star performer has just joined your team or has been working for you for a while, here are some tips on how to manage her. “Don’t assume you know what motivates them.”

Management 8

Management How To Project Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

” Of course, your first step as a manager should be to avoid hiring toxic people in the first place , but once they’re on your team, it can be hard to get rid of them. “A manager can use this information to coach the person, or suggest resources to help address the root of the problem.”

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Management How To Document Case Study 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

Perhaps you just wrapped up a big project and are having trouble mustering motivation for the next one. Is your manager giving you what you need to work at your best? Mistake constant fatigue and apathy for a temporary case of burnout; if you feel ineffective on a daily basis, it might be time to look for a new job.

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Motivation How To Long-term Stress 8

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 26, 2013

Project Systems. You will receive practical methods and customizable project management system templates. You will receive case studies and critical evaluation tools to help maximize your web experience. Creative people are not easy to lead and motivate. Web Essentials. Audience Connection.

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Storytelling Audience Brand Long-term 54

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 23, 2013

This real-life case study shows how an executive can expand a simple coaching assignment to benefit his team and company. I work with my clients and their managers to determine: 1) who are my client’s key stakeholders and 2) what are the key behaviors that my client wants to change. Learning Points for Coaching.

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Teamwork Report Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 107

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The bad news is that he fixates on every facet of a project and can't set priorities. Managing a perfectionist can be challenging but it's not impossible. In many cases, this compulsive behavior can be the thorn in the side of a great performer. "I Can you harness these positive qualities without indulging the bad? Yes and yes.

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Kaplan Management How To Self-aware 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

How do you motivate someone much older or much younger than you? Organizational careers don’t look the way they did before,” says Peter Cappelli, professor of management at the Wharton School and coauthor of Managing the Older Worker. It’s more common to see someone younger managing someone older.” Study your employees.

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Management Mentor Human Resources Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

But the rules and expectations are different when you’re managing a freelancer who isn’t fully employed by your company. How do you best motivate someone who you don’t have formal authority over? “You shouldn’t have to manage the work product of a contractor. What the Experts Say.

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Management Tips Performance Review Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

They are projected to make up the majority of all women by 2060, which means they’ll also likely become the majority of the U.S. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company.

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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

You have an ambitious team member who’s asking to be promoted to manager. As a manager, you’re always on the lookout for the next generation of talent in your organization. “It requires different skills to manage than to be an individual contributor,” she says. How do you judge his skills and experience?

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Management Engineering Case Study Self-aware 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

First-ever article on Dick Clark, as a business case study. Motivating pop culture piece designed to foster better, more successful companies. Thanks to great mentors, I learned to be my own best self, a visionary thinker and a repository of great case studies. Dick Clark Productions had a select list of projects.

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Mentor Case Study Strategic Planning Learning-by-Doing 85

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Geographically dispersed teams are increasingly common in the modern workplace — perhaps you’re based in your company’s New York headquarters and your team works out of offices in Denver and Charlotte or maybe you’re in San Francisco and manage telecommuters in LA and a group of developers in Minsk. Treat them as such.”

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Report Management How To Bond 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

” But it’s not only the success of your company that’s at stake, says Susan Ashford, professor of management and organization at Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Understand what’s motivating you. It all gets back to your motives, says Ashford. Ask yourself two questions: Why am I doing this?

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Project Restructuring Hotels Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

From Alison and Dan’s reading list for this episode: HBR: The Three Pillars of a Teaming Culture by Amy Edmondson — “When you join an unfamiliar team or start a challenging new project, self-protection is a natural ins tinct. So it takes conscious work to shift the culture.”

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Team Teamwork Edmondson Creativity 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

“There are a lot of negative consequences to somebody not carrying his or her load on a team,” says Allan Sloan, a professor of management at Babson College and author of Influence Without Authority. ” or “What’s motivating you?” Identify new opportunities to motivate. Start a dialogue.

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Team How To Committee Case Study 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

. “What I’ve learned about myself as a leader, as an executive, is — I’ll be blunt — I’m a pretty mediocre manager. ” While she’s utterly confident in herself, she just doesn’t identify as top management. And I hope that motivates my colleagues to do the same.”

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Power Charisma Learning-by-Doing Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Your employee might be struggling with a new task, or be so much of a perfectionist that she’s devoting too much time to certain projects. “It takes a lot of effort on the part of a manager to show someone what that is.” Find projects they enjoy. Don’t go into the conversation with preconceived ideas.

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McGregor How To Brainstorming Micromanagement 10