First Friday Book Synopsis
MARCH 10, 2013
I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: REVIEWS Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life Paddy Miller and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg Finding Keepers: The Monster Guide to Hiring and Holding the World’s Best Employees Steve Pogorzelski and Jesse Harriott [.].
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 31, 2014
In its “State of Human Capital” report , McKinsey found that people in HR still largely have “a support-function mindset, a low tolerance for risk, and a limited sense of strategic ‘authorship’” — all of which has led to “low status among executive peers, no budget for innovation, and a ‘zero-defects’ mentality.”.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
Researchers at McKinsey recently published related observations pertaining to new CEOs. Ram Charan spoke to HBR about this several years ago in the context of “making tough calls.” In short, they asserted that the worst thing new CEOs can do is “sit on their hands.”
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