Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

For the first time, I would be leading a team, which got me a free ticket to the Human Resources boot camp for managers. In fact, they drove their b g, moaning, and whining (BMWs) through the open door and parked with their engines idling, wasting fuel, and polluting the atmosphere.

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Open-book Policies Self-aware Cost 260

Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. They run business units and geographic regions.

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Self-aware Leadership COO Influence 83

CO2

OCTOBER 23, 2013

by Gary Cohen Most CEOs and organizational leaders understand the problem of too many distractions, but how about too much hyperfocus? The board and CEO of his company were so hyperfocused on keeping inventory low for the sake of efficiency that they didn’t have enough engines available for all their private jets.

Engineering 88

Engineering Bottom-up Analysis Human Resources 88

Chart Your Course

JULY 25, 2017

Enhance connections between co-workers, managers, and the organization. To build stronger bonds between the top management and employees, one corporate office practices something called Employee Scavenger Hunt. Once or twice a year, they give every executive or manager five names of employees. In a study by Linkage, Inc.

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Bond Workshop Webinar Engineering 100

Mike Cardus

APRIL 29, 2013

The most frightening thing about having a manager that is “Too small” and creates under-performance and dis-engagement is the gradual reduction in level of competence of the subordinate team, which creates broad departmental under-performance and increased dis-engagement. Jackie had recently been hired as vice-president of engineering.

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Case Study Leadership Engineering Team Building 150

HR Digest

JULY 1, 2021

During the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC), BCG and the European Association for People Management surveyed 3,400 executives, including 90 senior human resources leaders in more than 30 countries, to see how they were responding. Star performers aren’t like doctors or engineers. They post portfolios instead of resumes.

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Media Brand Crisis Skills 111

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

From starting her post as CEO of America’s largest automotive manufacturer, to being named “The Most Powerful Woman” by Fortune, to being the focal point of the newest cyber rampage on gender pay inequality, Ms Barra is making headlines around the world. What an eventful month it has been for Strategista Mary Barra!

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Strategy Automotive Human Resources Engineering 98

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Founder and CEO Morag Barrett says, “Having fun is infectious. An elaborate, annual holiday party features skits from new attorneys and appearances by the firm’s managing partner, who has appeared as many characters including a Vegas showgirl, Dolly Parton, and an Oompa Loompa. They mean it.

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Committee CPA COO Morale 105

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

They’re taking a collective view of managing all the disparate parts that influence brand promise, changing the way they work and organize themselves internally so that the entire organization is focused on delivering the brand promise. Visit The Grossman Group's CEO Ultimate Resource Center to get tools and strategies for leadership.

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Brand Reputation Human Resources Brand Management 141

Leading Blog

MAY 18, 2015

Customer value that is based on substance as opposed to perceptions is widely pursued by organizations that aspire to greatness, and is also a fundamental building block of the Lean management system. And senior managers might step out of the executive suite and find out what more they can do to support their value-creating workers.

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Insurance Metrics Engineering Cost 150

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. 3 14,200 5,195 273 Jason Fried Business, Leadership Founder & CEO at Basecamp (formerly known as 37signals). Maybe you need a leadership development expert or public speaker. Former chief evangelist of Apple.

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Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Emotional Intelligence 100

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Even if you are fulfilled, the odds are that many of your managers and employees are not, according to new study conducted by Metrus Institute. In hiring talent at any level, especially senior managers and executives, this ‘fit’ is critical. Who wouldn’t like to be more fulfilled? A good test of this is to ask about priorities.

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Company Survey Rogers Skills 50

Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. I know of the CEO of a company who takes Fridays off during winter as “personal ski days.&# I can’t see one. I’ve noticed that male leaders take time off.

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Press Release Discount PR Parcell 193

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Assets are adequately valued and managed.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Have you noticed that general managers are scarce these days? These are the executives who run discrete businesses and control all of the resources associated with them. But in many large companies, the only true general manager is the CEO. At one time general managers were at the center of the action.

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Management P&L Incubator Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

In 2014, I surveyed 116 CEOs and other executives, interviewing 27 in depth afterwards. About a third (32%) were CEOs or presidents; 31% were division/business unit heads; 30% were senior managers reporting to division/business unit heads; and 7% were in investment or professional services firms. .”

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CEO Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Execution 8

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. There’s no single CEO-like entity and no hierarchy for single accountability. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. systems, air travel feels a bit more like a chore than like a treat.

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Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 267

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. The urgency has to come from inside the individual instead of top management.” It came from a leader within the practice.

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Technology Talent Management Process Management 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

The tech sector, which has become as famous for toxic company cultures as for innovation, and as well-known for human resource headaches as for hoodie-wearing CEOs, could use a little of the mellowness and wisdom that comes with age. Management theorist Peter Drucker was famously curious.

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Industry Library Hotels Human Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

A recent survey I designed for one manufacturing sector found that almost 60% of managers responding thought skill shortages were already hurting their firm’s productivity and quality. I’ve interviewed healthcare CEOs, for example, who seemed most concerned with filling hospital housekeeping jobs.

Skills 8

Skills Human Resources Engineering Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. USC’s John Boudreau, CEO adviser Ram Charan, and consultants at Bain & Company , McKinsey, and Korn Ferry have made similar arguments.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Charismatic CEOs enjoy leading and inspiring people, so they don’t like delegating critical business decisions to smart algorithms. At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

They were desperately looking for great engineers, designers, and business people – but were very picky about who they hired. Facebook’s method for spreading a shared mindset in new engineers and technical employees has become more systematic and exacting as the company has expanded. Did you see that?”.

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Engineering Class Software Mentor 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The same can be true if you are in an engineering job without the right credentials, or a senior finance job without an MBA or an advanced degree in finance. If you are in Human Resources, you can improve your technical skills with the PHR and SPHR certifications offered by the Society for Human Resource Management.

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Career Skills Cost-Benefit Analysis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Women remain underrepresented in most high-level positions: They account for less than 5% of Fortune 500 CEOs, less than 15% of executive officers, and less than 20% of full professors in the natural sciences. Diversity Gender Human resources'

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Training Diversity Human Resources Committee 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Last month, Fox News agreed to pay Gretchen Carlson $20 million to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the network’s former Chairman and CEO, who resigned in the summer. And we continue to hear stories about sexual harassment in academia , medicine , science , and engineering driving women out of STEM.

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Report Long-term Training Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Humorous because, as a Human Resources practitioner, I hear similar calls for change within my profession. The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. CEOs sense the problem perhaps more than CIOs do.

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

” Publicly, CEOs talk about digital transformation, but privately, they wonder if their efforts will be enough. Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Human capital. We normally think of people as something to be managed. Intellectual capital.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

sought to humanize medicine and was portrayed by Robin Williams in a 1998. engineers, pilots, sales managers, marketers, teachers, and bankers. For example, in the human resources. Society for Human Resource Managers have established standards and certification. theatrical film about him.

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Film Leadership Human Resources COO 280

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The CEO’s principal aim therefore is not necessarily to judiciously allocate financial capital but to allocate precious scientific and human resources to the most promising projects and to pull back and redeploy those resources in a timely manner when the prospects of specific projects dim.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

A workplace gets designed that looks good, looks like the one the CEO of the client firm just saw in a glossy magazine spread, or looks like it may accomplish some ill-defined objective, such as increasing collaboration. engineer or accountant) and personal experiences. Design Employee retention Human resources'

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Human Resources Objective Environment Influence 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. The first step was to hire someone to run it. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. ” Hiring for Growth.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 9, 2021

The challenge for a lot of leaders and hiring managers is that they’re in the weeds. You manage what you measure. These talent makers – whether they’re the CEO, the head of sales, or the head of engineering – have three basic responsibilities. They are focusing on individual hires. Ninety days in, are they adding value?

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How To Diversity Maturity Process 132

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

Franklin was in the business of designing, engineering, and manufacturing climate control systems for cars and SUVs. Franklin had finally returned to profitability, but she and Cameron Koren, a turnaround specialist who’d been brought in as CEO five years earlier to right the ship, were still working hard to keep the business on track.

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Case Study CFO Bottom-up Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In 1980, Jim Baron, now a professor at the Yale School of Management, and William Bielby, now a professor at the University of Illinois, published a seminal article on firms and inequality. Firms varied in the extent to which frontline operators were responsible for programming these machines, versus engineers maintaining control.

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Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Citrix is very serious about this mission for our customers as well as for how we work ourselves, so serious that we are adopting design thinking as a company-wide strategic imperative from our CEO, Mark Templeton. How was the value proposition or ROI worked out for management approval? How did the space come about?

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