QAspire

AUGUST 19, 2012

What started with a clear accountability changed into a chronic case of multi-tasking. Establishing a culture of accountability is a double-edged sword. Jay was expected to reach his goal while following the exact process and still doing twelve other things that were unstructured.

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Compliance Project Leadership Styles Creativity 150

HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Image credit – Pexels Office Holiday Party Etiquette—You’re a Part of It Even When You Don’t Attend Office parties can be a double-edged sword, depending on where you work and what your relationship is like with your coworkers. Identify a few people you might like to start a conversation with and introduce yourself.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 19, 2019

But this is a proverbial double-edge sword. When a controversial creator is demonetized , it means the big sites that once welcomed them and their work has had a change of heart. The internet is littered with examples of creators who have been deplatformed – or demonetized as the practice is called.

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HR Digest

JUNE 5, 2019

Salary transparency is a double-edged sword; it could bring motivation and demotivation at the same time. But just like everything else we can think of, workplace culture is rapidly changing. Hence, salary transparency could incite lobbying for change. The big challenge.

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Survey Comparison Learning-by-Doing CEO 66

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

That’s a double-edged sword. He designs change leadership and team development strategies that create alignment and build individual and team capacity to lead organizational transformation. He is co-author, along with Pat Newmann, of The Change Leader’s Checklist. Get out of the weeds. You’re hiring fans.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

After all, exposure is a double-edged sword, and many CEOs and senior executives have short attention spans but long memories. CEOs are people too - it might even be a welcome relief to spend time with a "regular" employee for a change. Most employees NEVER get to have a meeting with the CEO of their company.

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CEO How To Execution Document 238

The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 22, 2016

While growth is the life-blood of every business, at some point, your company will experience the double edge sword of growth. However, markets change and so must your path to future growth. As a company scales, leadership roles also scale and change dramatically at each growth level. Below are 2 examples how.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

Here are examples of five different leadership styles that have all proven successful in various ways: Transformational This type of leader is one who is able to continually inspire his or her teams and influence subordinates to improve and/or change. As such, it can be a double-edged sword, highly dependent on the leader sticking around.

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Blog CEO Leadership Styles Leadership 230

Steve Farber

DECEMBER 16, 2010

This style of trust can be a double-edged sword for Chinese businesses. We live in a time of change. Trust can be more easily gained if there is a connection via the family or the existing network of “in-groups.&# In dealing with U.S. and to truly empower and utilize the local talents for their business.

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Newsletter Morale Globalization Quality 76

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

If your start-up has experienced a lot of rapid growth recently, you’ll know that it’s something of a double-edged sword. On the other, you’ll have to take care of a lot of scaling, which will mean managerial and organizational changes. Set yourself some medium-term goals, and stick to them! Keep Your Customers Happy.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 16, 2013

Steady Changing. This activity explores dealing with changes. 9) Make a change by announcing Challenge #2 : line up alphabetically by the letters of the number on your card you hold. Between challenge #2 and #3, ask the group to spend some time planning how to respond to the next change. S-Steadiness focus activity.

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Development Team Team Building Training 114

Steve Farber

DECEMBER 16, 2010

This style of trust can be a double-edged sword for Chinese businesses. We live in a time of change. Trust can be more easily gained if there is a connection via the family or the existing network of “in-groups.&# In dealing with U.S. and to truly empower and utilize the local talents for their business.

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Newsletter Morale Globalization Quality 49

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Our department has taken the initiative to set up bi-weekly meetings just to cover all the particulars, but I find this to be a double edged sword. Even though I do talk to and work with my peers and direct reports every day they may not be completely filled in with the details of a project that I’m working on.

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Blog Greenleaf Maslow Follow-up 124

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

We need to start the conversation now about how to handle this double-edged sword, so that the soul of Silicon Valley doesn't get vaporized from the heat of the limelight. Why is it a double-edged sword? Go to school. Learn your place.". I hope we abolish that narrative completely.

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Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

We need to start the conversation now about how to handle this double-edged sword, so that the soul of Silicon Valley doesn't get vaporized from the heat of the limelight. Why is it a double-edged sword? Go to school. Learn your place.". I hope we abolish that narrative completely.

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Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 18

Roundtable Talk

MARCH 3, 2010

This got me thinking about the double-edged sword of success. According to the Mayor of Salt Lake City , another former Olympic host, the post-event blues can trigger a feeling akin to depression amongst the people left behind. But then reality sets in and it’s time for “now what?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

Like any extreme trait, perfectionism can be a double-edged sword. She stays subscribed and sets a goal to get “double value” from the service going forward in order to emotionally recover the money she’s lost paying the monthly fee for several months but not using the service. Hans Blossey/Getty Images.

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Hotels Learning-by-Doing Self-aware Tools 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2014

But upon closer inspection, risk assessment is itself a dangerous double-edged sword. So is there a better way to think about risk, especially in fast-changing environments? In adolescence, for example, it may confer certain advantages because this is when we learn how to adapt to a rapidly changing world.

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Tools Risk Management Learning-by-Doing Retail 14

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

S how the world the significant change and benefits from your work. This change in behavior, working in reverse, will increase your ability to change your existing conditions with remarkable results based on what is seen in the distant future. C odify your ‘way to play’ to get the job done. Be a Leader?Reader

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CEO Succession Tips How To 393

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

state policymakers have aided and abetted these efforts by changing the law to enable employer control over workers’ knowledge. This trend has been fueled not only by the contemporary talent wars and the much debated skills gap , but also by changes in the law that have expanded employers’ control over employees’ knowledge.

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Incentives Policies Innovation Human Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

And, indeed, research shows that organizations with proactive employees perform better: they maintain their profitability in highly dynamic work environments, in part because they are better able to adapt to changing circumstances. But as Max’s story highlights, proactivity can be a double-edged sword.

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Politics Skills Sample Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Having a hands-off manager can be a double-edged sword. Consider these scenarios: Earlier in my career, a dean at my school (who used to be a peer) asked me and another colleague to lead a significant change effort. On one hand, these bosses give employees considerable initiative and empowerment.

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Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Tactics Project 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

It seems an inconsequential event — no new international alliances are formed, no policies will change within their home nation, and the young couple doesn't seem all that interesting. Events are double-edged swords. Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

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CEO Apparel GDP Audience 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

But the "salesperson owns customer" model is a double edged sword. Leaders lacked the will and courage to make the needed change, resulting in an undersized sales force with inadequate expertise to meet customer needs. Three examples show the issues that can arise.

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Company Market Penetration Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

Like other parts of the tourist industry, Airbnb has become a double-edged sword. Our estimate is that in the last three years, around one-quarter or even one-third of the housing stock has changed function, mainly toward financial investments and short rentals.” It has over 200 available Airbnb rentals.

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Tourism Travel Price Content 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

A third study demonstrated that such changes in self-perceptions from behaviorally targeted ads can impact behaviors extending beyond purchase intentions. If they had no interest in the outdoors and the targeting was inaccurate, behavioral targeting did not lead to changes in self-perceptions or higher likelihood of buying.

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Self-aware Advertising Participative Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Becky described her approach: It’s kind of a running joke now with my nails because I change my nail color pretty much every couple of weeks. Although they saw this as necessary to earn their colleagues’ respect, it was a double-edged sword. What can managers do to change this dynamic?

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Engineering Management Career Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

In the early years of a company''s life cycle, an entrepreneur''s ambition can be a double-edged sword. Not long after incorporating all of these changes, the retailer pulled the plug on the entire project due to economic reasons.

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Reputation Entrepreneur Retail Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

The difficult truth is that sponsorship as it's traditionally considered inside of large organizations is a double-edged sword. Small victories point us in the right direction, and small failures tell us how to change. By changing the jargon, Brian changed people's preconceived notions about the test.

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Innovation Execution How To Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Far from a panacea, pay transparency is a double-edged sword, capable of doing as much — or more — damage as good. It is hard to imagine a policy change that does more to place pay comparison in everyone’s face than pay transparency. Transparency prompted lobbying for change.

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Comparison Incentives Outsourcing Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

And it is also pretty obvious that their complexity is a double-edged sword. Well, sometimes, a sharply-focused and “designed” change works well, for example, pushing accountability into the hands of certain individuals who are much closer to the customer. It goes without saying that big companies are complex.

Management 8

Management Engineering Decentralization System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

Despite the Gloom, Few Europeans Want Radical Change (Oxford Analytica). BONUS BITS: Double-Edged Swords. Chances are awfully good, suggests eWeek, there’s somebody already working there who can do this job. DON'T GO TRYING SOME NEW FASHION. And most people still back a free-market economy. Financial Times).

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Supply Chain Real Estate ROI CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Creating a new leadership position focused on safety is a double-edged sword. Barra further promised to repair all broken vehicles (and to double the number of product reviews). Auto industry Change management Crisis management Failure Leadership Manufacturing Operations' Fact 5: Product assurances.

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Report Learning-by-Doing Crisis Management CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

But autonomy is a double-edged sword. This organizational model can work well in relatively stable business environments, where the pace of change is modest and where annual planning cycles suffice for managing strategic changes and course corrections. On the one hand, it spurs creativity and involvement.

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Agility Innovation Span of Control Objective 8

The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

With the new year coming, I asked myself … what wisdom could I provide to help leaders change their game in 2014? As David Rock points out, improving human performance involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way people think. It’s what I call “the double edge sword of growth.”.

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Books Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing 113

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

After a heated political campaign, voters in the United Kingdom decided by a slim margin, on June 23, to exit the European Union, leading to a change in government. Now that a new prime minister has taken over, the next big question looms: How will the UK and EU negotiate their split?

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Definition Constraint Article Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The dynamics of the G7 could very well change when the number of female leaders moves from just one, Merkel, to potentially three (at least for some period of time, as Merkel faces reelection in 2017). The presence of three women may be a double-edged sword, with the potential to either strengthen or undermine their positions.

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Tactics Politics Policies Power 8