Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2011

For example: Your brain can’t multitask – it can only switch back and forth between two tasks, and both tasks suffer. Congressional committees as well as the Federal Communications Commission. If so, you are suffering from CyberOverload, an affliction that occurs when our gadgets control us rather than the other way around.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

A powerful example of this can be seen in the United Kingdom’s Athena Swan Charter and Awards. This lesson can be applied more broadly, including to systematizing search processes, appointment of physicians to committees, and nomination for leadership roles and increased responsibility. Re-thinking awards and promotions.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Further, they need to limit their focus to, at most, six capabilities, and make those capabilities work together as a mutually reinforcing system that perpetuates competitive advantage. That belief stems from having chosen a differentiated way to play that is supported by a strong system of mutually reinforcing capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

I should know: my company, Atos, is the worldwide IT partner of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the lead technology integrator for the London Games. But the complexity of the project is not only a function of having to cover so many clients, sites, and systems.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

I’ve been working in HR for over twenty years, and the best companies I’ve worked with have recognized that there are three elements to a culture: behaviors, systems, and practices, all guided by an overarching set of values. A place to start is by reviewing the behaviors, systems, and practices in place in your company.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. Its Remuneration Committee employs several key performance indicators (KPIs) to guide the compensation of senior executives. ” What has emerged more recently is the use of nonfinancial, but still objective, KPIs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

election and Brexit are only the most recent examples of the pervasive, burgeoning importance to corporations of business-in-society issues. This, in turn, involves sorting out different ideologies in those systems about how government should function: from the libertarian to the conservative to the populist to the liberal to the socialist.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

For example, women do not achieve promotions or advancement to leadership positions at the same rate as their male peers. For example, studies have demonstrated that women are less likely to be hired and/or promoted because of their gender. System-wide policies that disadvantage women. Implicit gender and maternal bias.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

As the talent ecosystem evolves to offer more options, talent systems have not kept pace. Typical systems are fragmented between disciplines like HR (which focuses on the internal, “permanent” workforce) and Procurement (which focuses on the external, “contingent” workforce), each with different and competing goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

First, let's make sure to define capabilities clearly: by capabilities, we mean the interconnected people, knowledge, systems, tools, and processes that create differentiated value for customers. Cesare Mainardi is Managing Director of Booz & Company's North American business and is a member of the firm's Executive Committee.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

It’s a perfect example of the phenomenon that Paul Nunes and I refer to as Big Bang Disruption. To complete the revolution in IP voice, however, we still need to untangle the remnants of profoundly complicated regulatory machinery that for decades carefully controlled the Bell System at the federal and state levels.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

It encourages executives to apply the dark arts of Machiavelli in order to influence their company’s direction and it offers no guidance to CEOs trying to make their systems generate good ideas and strategies. After all, squaring this circle is precisely what a legal system is supposed to do. There is a Better Way.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

In South Africa, integrated reporting is a requirement for listed companies on an apply or explain basis and the European Commission passed legislation that will require around 6,000 European entities to disclose on non-financial and diversity information. Why the interest? That could be a bad thing, a step away from investing in talent.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

They are remarkably open to talented people from diverse backgrounds, and are highly skilled at giving future leaders the knowledge and experience they need to lead successfully in the global economy. America's higher education system is a magnet for talented leaders from all over the world.

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Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

The world is full of examples: "At IBM , we strive to lead in the invention, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, storage systems and microelectronics. We use this idea to foster change in social institutions and thinking.". Michael Phelps.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

Organizations have been trying to improve diversity in the workplace for decades — with little success. We need to try some new techniques, starting with making systemic changes to the ways businesses are run. It might also be a juicy-sounding assignment like chairing a diversity or company culture committee.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? This was a $1.2

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

People may chuckle over misbehavior rather than calling it out, for example, or they may ostracize harassed women, privately ashamed of not having spoken up. federal courts found on-the-job harassment to constitute sex discrimination , companies created anti-harassment training programs and set up systems to handle internal complaints.

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Report Training System Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

How do they use their power to create diverse, inclusive organizations? Companies in the top quartile for gender diversity were found to be 15% more likely to outperform those in the bottom quartile. For example, one leader addressed the business logic for diversity and inclusion, stating, “Let’s do cost/benefit.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

BP provides a devastating example of what can happen when this isn’t the case. Plus, as a result of a lack of cross-organizational coordination and cooperation, Nokia wasn’t able to improve its proprietary operating system, Symbian, which would have allowed it to support a more sophisticated smartphone. It just fell through the cracks.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

More than a decade ago, countries in Europe began to take measures to increase the gender diversity of their corporate boards. Iceland, Norway) as well as in countries still working toward achieving their gender diversity quotas (e.g., There was also resistance to following the European example. Australia, Denmark, the U.S.).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. Early in its growth, an organization will customarily have a competent financial audit committee, even though financial controls are rather mundane.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

House and Senate committees have scheduled hearings to consider the President’s proposals, and bipartisan Congressional leadership has asked for public comment. Congress must reform Medicare’s fee-for-service payment systems. Eliminating geographic variation in post-acute care would reduce total Medicare variation by 73%.

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Health Care How To Metrics Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Marine Corps General Glenn Walters recently testified before the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services and observed, “What I’m encouraged by is that some of the [harassment] reports are being generated by male Marines who are seeing another [male] Marine doing something wrong.” Yet, there is a glimmer of hope.

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Politics Self-aware Influence Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

He will layer a women’s sequined top under a men’s leather jacket, for example, or a basketball jersey with maroon faux-fur pants. ” According to Harry, “suits are an expression of formality and a type of seriousness that fits into conventional systems of what’s serious and who is serious.”

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Fashion Participative Class Creativity 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

She is the only woman on the Executive Committee of her global company, and has just worked hard to promote another woman into a senior role. They want the system to adapt. “I put my neck on the line for her, and now she’s coming whining into my office saying she’s not sure she can do the job??!” They don’t want women to adapt.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

The motivations behind Russian hackers are the most diverse of any team with government connections. The techniques in the Russian hacker tool kit are diverse. Trying to protect all your data, systems, and networks from all forms of malicious cyber activity? But with the U.S. Insight Center. Getting Cybersecurity Right.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

General Electric and HCL Technologies provide a good counter example. GE is known for its diversity and ability to function competitively in many markets. Of course, both systems work. Here, diversity in the decision-making fits the terrain. GE and HCL. So which works? But they work for different reasons.

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