HR Digest

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Last week she brought homemade cookies for everyone and refused to hand me one unless I kissed her on the cheek. Sadly, we don’t have an office policy that addresses workplace relationships. This includes frantically leaving voicemails after bumping into me at the mall and mistaking my sister for my girlfriend.

Conference 40

Conference Policies Report Examples 40

Building Personal Strength

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I selected the chocolate chip cookie. For diet and nutritional reasons, my policy is to avoid cookies. But I've always found it hard to resist a chocolate chip cookie. And oh my god, it was the best chocolate chip cookie I've ever tasted. A real delight in such a small town. It's a weakness.

Resistance 86

Resistance Training Article Policies 86

Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Those have always been important, but these days they may trump some of our policies and procedures. Cookie-cutter leadership doesn’t work as well among today’s workforce. In addition to systems and structures – for a leader to be successful today – leaders must engage a team on personal levels. Even sympathize.

Servant Leader 58

Servant Leader Learning-by-Doing Informal Structure Follow-up 58

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

COOKIE MONSTER. In his Princeton Baccalaureate speech, Michael Lewis warns graduates not to confuse luck with accomplishment, and cites a cookie experiment to prove his point. Teams of three participants were asked to write a policy paper. The good news: nobody ate the fifth cookie. Here’s the gist. His advice?

Morale 22

Morale Marketing Banking Price 22

CO2

DECEMBER 28, 2010

I’m talking fully baked in, that the concept has become part of the DNA of the entire organization, like a chocolate chip cookie can’t be a chocolate chip cookie without the chocolate chips. When your strategy is so ingrained into the culture do you still need to list it as a strategy in your strategic plan ?

Strategic Planning 76

Strategic Planning Executive Coaching Planning Execution 76

CO2

DECEMBER 28, 2010

I’m talking fully baked in, that the concept has become part of the DNA of the entire organization, like a chocolate chip cookie can’t be a chocolate chip cookie without the chocolate chips. When your strategy is so ingrained into the culture do you still need to list it as a strategy in your strategic plan ?

Strategic Planning 76

Strategic Planning Planning Executive Coaching Film 76

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2019

However, the trick is to bind your search bar, suggestions and your cookies to remember each search that an individual has made. However, with a flexible cookies policy, you can remember the machine or the IP address the basket was made from. Sometimes they’ll just swipe and browse items they are interested in.

Price 10

Price Letter Retail Policies 10

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 4, 2015

Those have always been important, but these days they may trump some of our policies and procedures. No more cookie-cutter leadership is allowed. In addition to a set of systems and structures — for a leader to be successful today — leaders must engage a team. We must build team spirit. Even sympathize.

Examples 30

Examples Edmondson Media Environment 30

Strategy Driven

APRIL 13, 2021

This plan should feature a data management policy that will help you and your employees follow the same consistent practices at all times. Make sure you brush up on the compliance laws in your industry and incorporate these into your data management policy. Be compliant. Collect and use data sensitively.

Tips 119

Tips Management Compliance Software 119

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

COOKIE MONSTER. In his Princeton Baccalaureate speech, Michael Lewis warns graduates not to confuse luck with accomplishment, and cites a cookie experiment to prove his point. Teams of three participants were asked to write a policy paper. The good news: nobody ate the fifth cookie. Here’s the gist. His advice?

Morale 12

Morale Marketing Banking Price 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

But is constant adaptation always the best policy? The offerings from privately-held Berger Cookies in Baltimore have been the same for 179 years. When you taste your favorite cookie, you don’t want to suddenly discover that the recipe has changed. Our research indicates it isn’t. Will change alienate your base?

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Fashion Porter 10

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, my design firm did a direct mail booklet that was called “Fortune 501&# with 501 little quotations set up as fortunes around a fortune cookie recipe (we’d have made the cookies, but there are food regulations beyond our legal purview).

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Our findings further suggest that if some ambiguity exists about the product — for instance, oatmeal cookies could be framed as either healthy or indulgent — then it would be safer to use the healthy framing when using a busyness appeal.

Participative 14

Participative Advertising Long-term Survey 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

From Chick-fil-A to Apple , more and more major companies are taking policy positions on gay marriage. There has been a steady increase in the number of large employers including sexual orientation in non-discrimination policies and offering same-sex partner benefits. Arguably, there's a business case for supporting it.

Advertising 17

Advertising Market Segmentation Diversity Chemicals 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

As consumers spend an increasing amount of their time in cyberspace, companies are developing techniques to maximize the marketing capabilities afforded by cookies and other online surveillance tools. Privacy policies generally go unread, and for good reason. ” Websites use defaults. Privacy promises can backfire.

Advertising 8

Advertising Handbook Document Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

New research from the Center for Work-Life Policy (CWLP) explores and analyzes the complicated career dynamics of this rich talent pool. One reason for their drive: China's one-child policy. Co-author Ripa Rashid, senior vice president at the Center for Work-Life Policy, has worked across Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific.

Survey 13

Survey Policies Globalization CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

government practices, for which there is little indication of changed policy or procedure. For example, most of the web’s free content requires the user to accept tracking cookies that customize advertisements. In the EU, consumers must explicitly accept the cookies, but so what? Nearly everyone does.

Safe Harbor 8

Safe Harbor Bureaucracy Information Directory 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

When is the right time in the hiring process to mention existing vacation plans, or ask about time off policies? Hirers can often come across as tough cookies, but they want to be liked as much as you do – or, at least, they want you to look and sound as if this role is the perfect next step in your career.

Planning 8

Planning Due Diligence Commitment Books 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

All this said, behavioral data collection – through web and email cookies, location beacons, internet-use monitoring, cross-device tracking and all the rest – isn’t going to disappear entirely, of course. Consumers have already seen a range of developments resulting from the forthcoming enforcement of the GDPR.

Marketing 8

Marketing Advertising Constraint Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

But don't track me with third party cookies, tracking beacons or anything else that monitors my activities outside this site. USER: Here (points to a source) are my other preferences and policies, and means for matching them up with yours to see where we can agree. SITE: Okay, What else? SITE: Good. Here are ours.

CRM 15

CRM Discount Download Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Friedman and Mandelbaum are policy wonks, so they explore the notion that "average is over" mainly as it applies to countries and societies, and how we educate kids, train workers, and make public investments. The most successful companies, products, and brands have figured out how to become the most of something.

Airlines 16

Airlines Mission Statement Sharpe Brand 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO. As chief information officer of my family, I had purchased two used 333 MHz iMac G3s with 160MB of RAM in Bondi blue for my children to play games on.

Technology 15

Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

However, many end up sounding strangely similar—mentioning something about vacation policies, a beer fridge, and how the company is structured. There is no cookie-cutter framework or five-step process to creating a meaningful culture deck, just like there is no simple formula for creating great company culture.

Execution 8

Execution Mission Statement Team Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

I can''t delete cookies on my iPad or ensure that files are securely erased. Vendors can act arbitrarily, against our interests; Facebook regularly does this when it changes peoples'' defaults, implements new features, or modifies its privacy policy. On the policy side, we have an action plan.

Short-term 9

Short-term Business Model Software Power 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

nonprofits may sell products (Girl Scout cookies!) According to a recent survey by AshokaU , for example, 64% of universities that teach about social entrepreneurship do so via their business school, rather than public policy, social work, etc. and for-profits can accept donations.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Apparel Transportation Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2011

Set your browser to automatically delete your search history , cookies, logins etc. whenever you log out and/or at the end of every day, or erase your tracks manually.

Ethics 14

Ethics Media Bottom-up Follow-up 14

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

That’s the way the cookie crumbles. Companies spend disproportionate amounts of money on technology and neglect their people, processes and policies. Our human resources department takes care of that. We’re afraid of litigation. There’s not a thing that we can do to change things. That’s life.

Budgeting 77

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 77

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Introduce a daily music break, bring in some fresh flowers, or start a cookie-baking contest every other Friday. “With this merger we had the opportunity to put the right policies in place” to make sure the company was on solid footing. “The goal is to create fun and reduce the seriousness of the situation.”

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Stress Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Until now, the average consumer was likely unaware that when they “turn on cookies” it means they are agreeing to share their information with dozens — and in some cases hundreds — of affiliated partners. They must use only data that they have earned through explicit customer consent. Those days are over.

Marketing 10

Marketing Brand Storytelling ROI 10