You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Diversity is about achieving a real appreciation for the heterogeneous nature of the world and it’s people. To me, embracing diversity means appreciating, understanding, valuing and using our differences to enhance the work and create something greater than we might otherwise do by behaving divisively and out of ignorance or fear.

Leadership 57

Leadership Self-aware Diversity Blog 57

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Cofounded by Michael Murphy, a Harvard-trained architect who has devoted himself to improving the social impact of built environments, MASS is changing the way hospitals are designed and constructed. They looked at 12 diverse facilities for evidence of how unit design affects Caesarean rates.

Health Care 8

Health Care Long-term Mayo Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

From clean water supplies to the polio vaccine, the most effective public health interventions are typically preventative policies that help stop a crisis before it starts. Thanks to predictive analytics, we are piloting new ways to predict public health challenges, so we can intervene and stop them before they ever begin.

Policies 8

Policies Crisis Health Care System 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

From clean water supplies to the polio vaccine, the most effective public health interventions are typically preventative policies that help stop a crisis before it starts. Thanks to predictive analytics, we are piloting new ways to predict public health challenges, so we can intervene and stop them before they ever begin.

Policies 8

Policies Crisis Health Care System 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2009

However, very few people enjoy or respond well to “constructive feedback”. Isaak Estes Leadership Coaching Reply Gwyn Teatro July 11, 2010 at 7:21 pm Hi Isaak, Constructive feedback is only “constructive&# if it allows us the opportunity to produce the kind of work that makes us proud and helps us to see how we can be even better.

Performance Review 40

Performance Review Review PR Blanchard 40

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis and numerous corporate scandals, a director now confronts not only complex oversight accountability, but also personal risk and liability. At its most basic level, this manifests itself in a board's composition and diversity level. Clearly, this is a job not for the faint of heart.

Compliance 8

Compliance Maslow Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Tackling the complexity of most significant business issues can take a pool of talented people with diverse points of view. When issues are communicated properly, it creates an environment where people feel safe to bring you bad news early, giving you precious lead time to avert a crisis. Not every problem has an easy solution.

Project 8

Project Learning-by-Doing Team Sports 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Having said all that, I think it important to say too, that casual conversations can go from being constructive and helpful to divisive and destructive if you’re not careful. As leader, it is important to model constructive and helpful conversations and to be clear that negative talk is not condoned.

Participative 44

Participative Blog Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 44

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

If you accept the proposition that societies and economies are heading off the rails, then here's my hypothesis: we're about to careen into a Great Collision — people bumping up against the self-imposed perimeter of their own carefully constructed lives; human potential crashing headlong against choices that make the least of it.

Abell 14

Abell Hammer Construction Morale 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Multiple studies have shown that it was financial firms with the most shareholder-friendly governance and executive compensation schemes that got into the most trouble during the financial crisis. Corporate governance is all about balancing diverse, sometimes conflicting priorities and interests.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Banking Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Many CEOs opined that the complexity of the top job has increased dramatically, with diverse constituencies requiring their attention at any given time, and that they can never stop thinking about it, even in their free time. A few common themes stood out about how their passion helps them: It provides detachment like nothing else can.

CEO 10

CEO Sports Energy Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Figures speak for themselves only to those who understand how they have been constructed and in which context they are to be used. This is why management continues to advocate diversity as integral part of any successful organization.

Senge 8

Senge Education Rogers Tools 8

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

That's a lot of people skills - way more than managers or experts acknowledge. And they're one of the biggest “difference-makers” in the workplace.

Skills 104

Skills Construction Goleman Emotional Intelligence 104

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Because better risk management in the future turns on corporate behavior, not just more regulation, and because that risk management is going to be driven from the top of corporations, the answers to these questions of leadership responsibility and accountability for organizational action and culture are of critical importance.

Report 12

Report Policies Risk Management Analysis 12

You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 20, 2009

The Ugly Truth about Some Employees is that: In general, criticism is a hard pill to swallow , even the constructive kind. Announces Social Media, Branding & Diversity Strategies" by @ bizshrink. link] LeadershipNews: A Leadership Crisis or a Branding Issue? · Theme: Pilcrow by Automattic

Performance Review 44

Performance Review Review PR Blog 44

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Times of crisis and economic downturn get people thinking differently about the conduct of business. For many, times of crisis mandate that they think boldly and get used to doing business that way henceforth. used in construction). Diversity is a concept that encompasses ideas, cultures, philosophies and behaviors.

Transportation 93

Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 93

You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 16, 2011

Building awareness in organizations must be a collective effort with participation from many and diverse people. Reply Lawrence "Larry" Berezin January 19, 2011 at 3:04 pm Gwyn, Excellent, well constructed, thought-provoking post, as usual. Announces Social Media, Branding & Diversity Strategies" by @ bizshrink.

Self-aware 63

Self-aware Film Blog Diversity 63

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

Once this crisis is past, we can think about the future.” There persists a crisis orientation, meaning that everything is down to the wire on deadlines (not to be confused with just-in-time delivery, which is a good concept). The Big Picture of Business – Diversity is Important for Business. Feeling of Entitlement.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Cordoning off diversity and inclusion efforts in a single department signals those issues aren’t priorities, making challenging conversations easier to avoid. One company my firm worked with in the insurance sector engaged in customized diversity and inclusion training over the course of three years.

Management 8

Management Diversity Self-aware Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

We conducted interviews around the years 2007 and 2014 — one year before and 6-7 years after the global financial crisis, when many businesses faced new challenges. For example, Pamela (Managing Director, financial services) noted, “Everyone said to me, ‘do not take that [chief diversity officer] job.’

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Self-aware Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

That in turn fueled a construction and tourist boom in Spain and Greece, the proceeds of which got spent on BMWs and holiday rental properties. In this environment, Spain, Greece, and other crisis-struck economies didn't really have to worry about their productivity. The cash that this brought into Germany had to go somewhere.

Banking 14

Banking Construction Politics Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

That in turn fueled a construction and tourist boom in Spain and Greece, the proceeds of which got spent on BMWs and holiday rental properties. In this environment, Spain, Greece, and other crisis-struck economies didn't really have to worry about their productivity. The cash that this brought into Germany had to go somewhere.

Banking 11

Banking Construction Politics Case Study 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

But all these constructions include a dizzyingly diverse set of economies that don't have much in common, and in any case the market conditions inside these countries tell only part of the story. We live in a crisis-prone age. We live in a crisis-prone age.

Tourism 13

Tourism Crisis Globalization Politics 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

From digital platforms to customer experience to crisis management , these priorities have been a bellwether for what would soon dominate boardroom discussions and headline business publications. ” Eric Reynolds, CMO of Clorox, also sees purpose enhancing planning as a construct for decision-making.

Marketing 9

Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Add to that the problem of intra-European financial markets with "national" regulatory institutions and the lack of a Europe-wide deposit insurance scheme or common debt instrument, and one can start to understand why the euro zone is going through an existential crisis with still no real end in sight.

Crisis 11

Crisis Policies Banking Politics 11