HR Digest

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

(Image credit – Freepik) Holiday Employee Engagement: Boosting Employee Morale Holiday rewards and employee appreciation are great additions to the holiday spirit but it could be smart to start by a ddressing the mood of your company first and understanding why holiday employee engagement plans are necessary.

Morale 52

Morale Team Building Stress Planning 52

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Cultural fit To add further weight to this argument, research from Columbia Business School found that systems designed to measure cultural fit can help when it comes to instilling company values as well as retaining employees and supporting productivity. The study investigated workplaces in both the UK and the U.S.

Decentralization 126

Decentralization Construction Restructuring Tools 126

You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

A number of longstanding companies who failed to do that are now either out of business or in some serious bother because, either in whole or in part, they have found themselves being outpaced by technology and consumer demand for ever evolving applications. I think this is also true of business organizations. I think we all know that.

Organization 90

Organization Idea Generation Diversity Environment 90

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Therefore, collaboration involving lots of idea generation from multiple sources does not work for many projects. Ours is a training solutions company and we were feeling the pinch. So they did something unheard of, they called an all-company meeting bringing in employees from all corners of the globe.

Brainstorming 150

Brainstorming Open-book Project Idea Generation 150

You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

A number of longstanding companies who failed to do that are now either out of business or in some serious bother because, either in whole or in part, they have found themselves being outpaced by technology and consumer demand for ever evolving applications. I think this is also true of business organizations. I think we all know that.

Organization 77

Organization Idea Generation Diversity Environment 77

LDRLB

JULY 17, 2012

Just look at Blackberry, Blockbuster, Borders, and Kodak – all companies that missed opportunities to leapfrog to the next big thing. On the personal side, leaders who live abroad, work across different functions, and surround themselves with diverse team members continually expand their mindsets and creative problem solving abilities.

Disruptive Innovation 133

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Kaplan 133

You're Not the Boss of Me

APRIL 27, 2014

Less than 1%: Managers make a profit for their companies.”. That means our experiences around leadership, control, problem solving, idea-generation, diversity etc. the responses looked like this: 55%: Managers control people’s actions at work, making sure they do what they’re supposed to do when they’re supposed to do it.

Leadership 75

Leadership Sample Idea Generation Diversity 75

You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Less than 1%: Managers make a profit for their companies.”. That means our experiences around leadership, control, problem solving, idea-generation, diversity etc. 39% : Managers fix problems at work, any problem (and more often than not, they fix every problem). . are, almost always passed along and absorbed.

Leadership 76

Leadership Sample Idea Generation Diversity 76

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of ideas generated.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Van Stolk took his $20-million business to $42 million in four years by coming up with an idea that generated $25 million in free publicity. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Wear a silly hat.

Creativity 50

Creativity Bottom-up Newsletter Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

Idea generation will improve as people problem-solve together at meals. Pretty soon, your company will be completely transformed. Kastelle cites a startup that not only provides meals, it also has an open dinner once a week where people outside the company can hang with employees – yet another way to build networks.

Advertising 15

Advertising Idea Generation Innovation Diversity 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

As companies design their workplaces for the future, adopting the right technology and putting the right policies into place are key to business strategy and organizational success. New ways to improve business productivity, flexibility, and agility are no longer just nice to have: They are essential for the modern workplace.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Restructuring Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

And the best way to tell people what Apple stood for was to tell them who the company's heroes were. But neither Steve Jobs nor Apple nor any other high-profile innovator or company has a corner on the think-different market. Generating new business ideas that make a positive financial impact takes time. Shake it up.

How To 16

How To Innovation Creativity Disruptive Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

How can you ensure that your company has innovative teams? Based on our experience building innovation teams and consulting for Fortune 500 companies on setting up innovation processes, a key component that has proven to be paramount but consistently neglected is psychological assessment.

Creativity 8

Creativity Innovation Tools Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. The more I participated in the ambient, informal life of the office, the more committed I became to the work of the company. There's a new lonely crowd in the workplace.

Silverman 16

Silverman Real Estate Fashion Open-book 16

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). How diverse is the planning committee? Growth, defined as increasing revenues each year (rather than improving the quality of company operations).

Strategic Planning 71

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 71

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Video production companies treat only a few of the essential people skills, and their approach seems mostly to entertain and motivate, not to teach how. One key area of leadership skill involves coaching. But most books on this topic focus on mentoring and executive coaching, not skills for operational leaders.

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Skills Construction Goleman Emotional Intelligence 104

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Over the past four years, we''ve developed a well-defined set of principles that guide our annual "challenge," (lauded by Bill Clinton in TIME magazine as one of the top five initiatives changing the world for the better) that produces original and actionable ideas to solve social issues. Provide a toolkit.

Participative 9

Participative Innovation Guidelines Idea Generation 9