Lead Change Blog

MARCH 3, 2020

Jesse writes: “As trust in government continues to erode, more and more leaders of purpose-driven companies are taking a public stand around issues that impact us as a society. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared Time Management Strategies & Prioritizing. Here are five ways to effectively manage your energy.”

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Mentor 260

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2016

How does a good company generate value in society? How do the leaders of these new world companies reshape and remake our families’ available goods, our friendship networks, and the many smaller firms that support them? The Six Timeframes of a Company’s Life.

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Company Globalization Outsourcing Transportation 50

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Armed with reams of new data, companies including giants Procter & Gamble Co. But the rise of social media has highlighted the importance of networks , and companies are determined to capitalize on the power players lurking in their workforces. Making friends at the office has never been more rewarding.

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Influence Self-aware Competitive Advantage Social Capital 121

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Manage high-performing teams. While making global mindset a priority starts with upper management, executive staff aren’t the only people involved in implementing it across a company. The GMI measures Intellectual, Psychological and Social Capital to reveal both strengths and areas for development.

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Globalization Long-term Social Capital Travel 150

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

And since competition is a matter of relations, the company’s ability to structure and control the process of securing productive relationships will determine success in the marketplace. The corporate reason to collaborate is to improve decision making through knowledge management.

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Social Capital CIO Knowledge Management Information Technology 95

HR Digest

JULY 28, 2021

What should companies do now? In a recent McKinsey Global Survey on the future of workforce needs, nearly nine in ten executives and managers say their organizations either face skills gap already or expect gaps to develop within the next five years. Coronavirus has changed the way Americans work. A STITCH IN TIME.

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Management Craft

APRIL 26, 2011

If you Google "how to manage up" you will see that a post I did last year tops the page. Would your employees feel the need to Google "how to manage up?". I will be doing a two day training session in Istanbul in November on the topic of managing up. Getting back to managing up. And this is what I mean by half-heartedly.

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Management Participative How To Social Capital 61

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2020

We simply have no precedent for how to plan for what may come next, or for managing the pace of the upheaval. They must ensure that everyone across the company, not just employees, shares in the burden. The response must recognize financial reality, but also sustain social capital by respecting all stakeholders.

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Crisis Open-book Fixed Costs Social Capital 66

Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 25, 2010

We are sorely deficient of what I refer to as connection (also known as community, social capital, belonging or meaningful relationships). They sense that something is wrong although though they don’t understand why. The problem today is hidden in plain sight. How did we get to this state? why is everyone smiling?

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Social Capital McCarthy Godin Committee 284

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

But effective cooperation, particularly in a setting as complex as health care, requires more than a resolve to play well together; it requires leadership to explicitly recognize the need to build social capital across the organization, and implement a strategy accomplish it. Ultimately, the key to success is authenticity.

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Social Capital Health Care Cooper Storytelling 8

Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 6, 2011

Managers Can Change That. Art Petty suggests Respectfully Speaking, Let’s Cure Respect Deficit Disorder at Management Excellence. I love Joe and Wanda on Management. It’s a well-framed discussion of framing: Managers and Decision-Making. Jon Ingham presents Leading in the Love Shack at Management 2.0

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Article Leadership Ingham McCarthy 199

Coaching Tip

JUNE 21, 2012

Says Adam Cobb, assistant professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania: “The best way to get a job now is the same as in the ’70s and the ’80s—word of mouth.”. The problem is that companies have responded with crude filtering devices, so many of those résumés remain unread. “We find that in the U.S.,

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Tips Succession Social Capital McKinsey 128

Steve Farber

MAY 15, 2015

You are judged and influenced by the company you keep, and who you know defines what you know. We’ve been exploring the convergence of three essential qualities: Human Capital–individuals’ attributes, talents, capacities, and contribution. What Makes Your Work, Work. To be perfectly clear, this hour is on us!

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Social Capital Human Capital Leadership Webinar 40

Management Craft

MAY 12, 2011

I was talking with a client from a Fortune 50 company. As leaders, sometimes we should spend a little social capital and roll the dice on a promising potential - cautious smautious. I also like the idea of using power to makes great things happen for others (not in a command and control way, but in a catalyst way).

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Power Social Capital Video Course 66

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs. This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. The other domain is leadership.

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Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 114

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs. This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. The other domain is leadership.

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Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 113

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

Explicit laws vary but so do implicit social norms, which can be easy for outsiders to transgress. Managers who take overseas assignments or change industries should ensure that they are clear on what constitutes legal misconduct and socially sanctioned though technically legal behavior in their new environment.

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Company Due Diligence Mission Statement How To 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

There’s been a ripple of excitement of late as some big companies have unveiled (fairly modest) raises and bonuses for workers. A sound economy, a booming stock market, and huge business tax cuts, the story goes, have convinced CEOs of companies flush with cash to distribute some of it to front-line employees. to $15 per hour.

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Definition Company Succession Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

A lot of time management advice is about saying no to meeting invites or checking email less often. How can you manage your time while keeping relationships intact? But that shouldn’t stop you from trying, says Julie Morgenstern, a time management expert and author of Never Check E-Mail in the Morning. What the Experts Say.

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Management Case Study Team Social Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Persuaded by such logic, companies agree to make the investment and set up their innovation centers. Perhaps the most frequent is the isolation of the outposts and their detachment from the rest of the company. Consider a European energy company that decided to open an innovation outpost in Silicon Valley a number of years ago.

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Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The demand for companies to retain top talent is intensifying. And yet, companies often spend very little time onboarding new hires. ” There’s almost always a litany of cryptic acronyms that company’s use for key processes or roles — decoding them can be one of the most distressing challenges for new hires.

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Short-term Social Capital Report Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

A transport company like TNT is a typical beneficiary of globalization. But we got returns on our investment as well: Our employees were proud of the company and eager to participate; the disaster areas provided some of the best training on how to solve complex dilemmas; and of course the reputation of the company improved tremendously.

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Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

Companies should position their social media efforts to replicate as much as possible this community-oriented buying experience. In turn, social media firms, such as Facebook, should become expert at enabling this. Help them build social capital. That got NI into the C-suite.

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Marketing Social Capital Media Influence 22

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

It’s not within the day-to-day scope of my job and I certainly don’t want to put myself or the company at significant risk, but it would be a shame if I didn’t try to move the idea forward somehow. How do I do this within a pretty traditional organization?”. Our notions of sustainable competitive advantage are truly challenged.

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Entrepreneur Organization Competitive Advantage Social Capital 20

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Over the past three decades at IDEO, I’ve worked with some of the most innovative companies in the world and seen a lot of creative leaders in action. The company nurtures its creative community and recognizes participation at every level. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). Further Reading. Innovation Book.

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Creativity Storytelling Social Capital Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

I once hired a McKinsey consultant into a country manager role in a developing region. Two years later, despite great success, he told me he wanted to find a job at another company in his home country. He did and was soon appointed to manage the company's entire international business from headquarters.

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Positioning Social Capital McKinsey Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

These days, the majority of a company’s employees are networked together on social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram. That’s why understanding, modeling, and measuring your employee network should be a key ingredient in your company’s strategic HR decisions. damage control).

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Analysis Competitive Advantage Social Capital Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2018

We’re all time-deprived; it can be daunting to have to manage work, family, and the “spare” time we spend on the necessary evil we call networking. And that core group should be a lot smaller than you think. But networking doesn’t have to be so time-consuming.

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How To Entrepreneur Social Capital Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The rise of Tata in India, Koç Holding in Turkey, and Grupo Carso in Mexico have some management thinkers contending that the conglomerate is back at the expense of the focused firm. Take a tobacco company in the U.S. Quite a respectable performance for a company operating in a fairly mature industry. There is no “scope effect.”

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Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

How to Manage a Toxic Employee. But before you start recommending that you attend every critical meeting at your company, keep the following in mind: Check your ego at the door. Office Politics. Make Your Enemies Your Allies. Brian Uzzi and Shannon Dunlap. Why We Fight at Work. Annie McKee.

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How To Social Capital Maturity Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

However, although their members can rent the (more urbane and green) Zipcar fleet by the hour and pick up their vehicle at a local parking space using a smartphone app, this is still a dedicated fleet, still inventory that the company has to acquire, manage and monetize. One of my favorite classroom examples is GirlMeetsDress.)

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Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Happily, Legatum's Nathan Gamester and Matt Baker were happy to answer a set of questions we pulled together to provide both an update and some background for readers unfamiliar with their work: What are the major trends that the index reveals that would be of particular interest to managers in multinational companies?

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GDP Social Capital Globalization Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

As an employee in a large company told us about his boss, “She energized me because she loved her job and was in general a very happy person. Answer These 5 Questions Think of your boss — your direct supervisor or manager — and consider each statement below. What do they do? What do they say? Create Energizing Events.

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Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

Yes, young and ambitious people with bright eyes and open hearts need to learn to accept the cold shoulder of established industry gatekeepers, even when it seems like the only goal of the latter is to prevent new ideas and innovation bubbling to the surface of their tired companies and low-growth industries. You can join them.

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Social Capital Industry Retail Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

What would it look like if managers were as polite and nurturing to one another and their subordinates as they are to customers? To bring tending into the light, managers could assess tending across three dimensions: organizational, team, and peer. Social capital also counts. This advice holds true at work as well.

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Bottom-up Attrition Absenteeism Social Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2011

In practical terms, what this means is that management should not seek to maximize the wealth of any one of its major constituencies — customers, investors, employees, and society (in the form of obligations to governments). Of course, to realize these benefits we require not only self-interest but also well-functioning markets.

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CEO Short-term Long-term Human Capital 11