Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

It’s about diversity of thought and understanding that good ideas come from anywhere. A Beautiful Constraint : How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's Business by Adam Morgan and Mark Barden Typically we look at a constraint as a negative. Not in spite of the constraint, but because of it.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

To make the most of performance appraisals, it’s important to use performance appraisal examples that reflect your organization’s culture and values. Providing effective performance feedback examples and performance appraisal comments can help managers provide constructive feedback that empowers employees to achieve their goals.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Advanced incinerators, autoclaves, and microwave treatments are just a few examples of how technology is redefining the industry. Overcoming Challenges: Navigating the Complex Terrain Financial Hurdles and Innovative Financing One of the most significant barriers to sustainable biomedical waste management is financial constraints.

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HR Digest

APRIL 25, 2024

Psychometric assessment examples play a critical role in enhancing the recruitment process, providing an efficient way for businesses to save both time and money. Image: Freepik Before We Get into Some Psychometric Assessment Examples, What Are Psychometric Tests? and personality traits.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 18, 2020

Innovation isn’t about fitting everyone into one process, it’s about tapping the power of diversity on the team.” Diversity in thinking leads to more inquiry, challenging of one another, and different perspectives.” Would you share an example of an organization that faced incredible pressure and, through innovation, started to win?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

So, we draw on very diverse examples of innovation – from science through to sports and from architecture through to social innovation – and the framework is really meant to help anybody who is facing challenges and looking to come up with original solutions. Distinguish some of the characteristics of unconventional thinkers.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 7, 2014

But as organizations become more diverse and complex, and as everyone is called upon to work more independently, refining these skills has become an imperative. Communicating effectively, becoming a more accomplished persuader, and helping others achieve their performance goals have long been foundational managerial roles.

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Women on Business

JUNE 13, 2012

We seek out diversity and strong points of view on our teams, but combine these characteristics with remote locations, tight timelines and resource constraints, and a day at the office can turn into a political and technological obstacle course. Some professionals compare the frustrations of leading a virtual team to “herding cats.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2018

Companies today spend millions of dollars on workplace diversity programs and outreach, often with little to show for it. Research has found that most workplace diversity programs fail to produce meaningful diversity and inclusion, and some have actually increased bias among individual employees. Nick Purser/Getty Images.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 24, 2009

Two diverse experiences shaped up this post and lessons learned from these experiences are still very relevant. I also included this example in a leadership training I delivered to a group of middle managers in my organization. April 2009: Leadership Lessons from Geese flying in V shape ‘Leadership’ was almost like theme of the month.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

In an earlier article, “ Teams Solve Problems Faster When They’re More Cognitively Diverse ,” we reported our research findings that teams with high levels of cognitive diversity performed better on these kinds of challenges. But in the case of these 12 managers, they did show a cognitively diverse approach.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

” For example, if you’re a bank branch trying to increase customer loyalty, look at a company in a completely different industry, like Starbucks, and ask how it keeps customers coming back. Get feedback from diverse sources. ” Embrace constraints. After all, those seem like very different ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

He exemplified a special leadership skill — the ability to get diverse teams of contending bankers, merchants, and traders to collaborate effectively. For example, one director we interviewed remarked that when directors impose their own view of a part, it tends to alienate the actor and others on the production.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

They have learned that some of the constraints they thought were immovable could be reframed by thinking more creatively about how they perform their tasks and what they consider the boundaries of these tasks. Take savings rates, for example. How to build diverse networks. Both are crucial.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

The research showed that this is true even at companies that are actively looking for diversity in hiring. For example, another study from the University of Warsaw , found that women described with feminine job titles (e.g. Another place to encourage accountability is in diversity metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

This year my organization decided to give an award for "excellence in leadership," and among the elements of excellence we expect to see in the winner, we're putting one criterion front and center: the nominees' commitment to gender diversity in their leadership ranks.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Is the company’s portfolio too diverse? You have clearly thought about these strategic questions before, but constraints on your business and short-term issues may have stood in the way of the answers – or at least at looking at the questions as an outsider might, and possibly arriving at different conclusions about the business.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Professionals of color, women, and LGBTs find there is a much narrower band of acceptance, and the constraints bite harder than wearing more polished outfits, getting a decent haircut, or even de-emphasizing an accent. By proving that diversity can pay big dividends, you can also demonstrate why it’s okay to “just be yourself.”.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Imagine slashed budgets, a hiring freeze, a tough competitive landscape, and unreasonable time constraints (or perhaps you don't have to imagine this state). Select for diversity. The Teach for America board includes teachers, and parents of kids in public schools — members who represent diverse markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

The right kind of shared minibuses, with Wi-Fi, folding work desks, and privacy screens or headrests, could work for business commuters, for example, while families with children and elderly or disabled riders would be more likely to take flexible vehicles with easy entry, generous storage space, and seats that can be reconfigured.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example. Some have decades of experience in their industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Diversity. While companies don’t often share the details of their supply chain strategy publicly, you can bet these companies have built more diverse options for sourcing key inputs. A company is clearly more at risk if it has just one major product, service, technology, key supplier, or other core element. billion hit to earnings).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Each locates interdisciplinary innovation labs within or near hospital environments; involves diverse stakeholders beyond clinicians (designers, engineers, business professionals, and patients) early in the innovation process ; and engages end users in customizing solutions for their own needs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

According to my current research at Harvard on innovation models in global companies across diverse sectors, these types of projects fail between 70% and 90% of the time.This should be a deeply troubling, motivating statistic. For example, Dorjee Sun , one of the entrepreneurs brought in to Kuoni, has been starting companies since he was 19.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Take, for example, the challenge of bringing about any major innovation in healthcare. But in general, the newness of the business behind them imposes important growth constraints.). Mechanisms would have to be designed to enable these diverse people and ideas to be combined. Big companies have all these processes in place.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

I know what they’re going to say — that we can’t have more resources due to budget constraints. These are just three recent examples that I heard in coaching sessions with clients. I’ve been thinking about it all day and haven’t been able to get anything done.”. “I I’ll probably just give up on this.”. Sound familiar?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

They had good reasons for this behavior: Experienced engineers were hard to find, and time constraints pressured leaders to fill roles quickly. For example, some executives made a commitment to review the job criteria for leadership roles.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

Do you have concrete plans for your business, but is hindered by budget constraints? Say for example you have a diverse supply to take care of. Do you think your company can still grow if only you have better infrastructure and more manpower to handle the workload?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

After studying meetings of various sizes, researchers have concluded that the optimal number of participants is seven or eight — small enough for good discussions, but large enough for a diversity of opinions. Similarly, the company overpaid for several problematic purchases — for example, $9.5

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

And as with quality, this isn't just about ethical or aspirational hopes — acting with sustainable values, for example, as covered well by many, including Dov Seidman in his book How. This is the mindset that sustainability needs to engender throughout an organization.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

But how do you overcome obstacles to spreading innovation, like fear of change, resource constraints, and slow, consensus-based decision making? Here’s an example that shows how well this combination of bottom-up, top-down communication can work when you’re trying to spread a health care idea: Telemedicine on wheels.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Consider these examples: 1. We worked with a diverse network of partners as part of PopTech's Innovation Accelerator program. One leading example, GeneRadar , is being piloted for HIV diagnosis in emerging markets on the way to broader application in the developing world. Changing corporate culture.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In facing the inevitable tradeoff between breadth and depth of coverage, we have opted to focus on only a handful of core insights from the field of negotiations, while devoting more attention to providing examples of how these insights can be applied to doctors and hospitals.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The link between inspiration and creativity is consistent with the transcendent aspect of inspiration, since creativity involves seeing possibility beyond existing constraints. Steve Jobs is the quintessential example of an inspiring manager, and he undoubtedly checked each of these boxes in spades. Empowering employees at all levels.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Once you’ve set a clear, realistic scope, it is vital to be honest about the budget and resources you will require and any time constraints. A data scientist who has the ability to work with and extract value from a large, diverse set of data scattered across your organization and beyond.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some examples of these competencies include: Conducting customer interviews and user testing. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart. VMotion at VMware was a great example of this. Running design sprints.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Be up front about organizational constraints. Be frank that the person lacks certain leadership qualities, for example. Recently, one of Adam’s reports — we’ll call her Maria — asked for a promotion that involved managing a large, geographically diverse sales team.

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