The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Having a diverse workforce has numerous benefits to an organization, with MIT research highlighting that the most diverse workplaces tend to be the most profitable. A study from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business took this a step further and explored the impact of class diversity on the success of a team.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 4, 2014

It can be poor and poison employee health , work relationships and organizational climates, or it can go well and help to energize problem solving, innovation and bottom-line effectiveness. Good-hearted people feel better when benevolent cooperation works, but unfortunately, cooperation often fails. Promoting Diversity at Work.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

“ESG is following something of a similar pattern to diversity, which in the beginning was largely virtue signaling to make it look like organizations really cared,” Columbia University’s Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic says. Spirit of cooperation. ” Values-based leadership. Global reach.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 7, 2021

Diversity is generally accepted as a good thing, with MIT research highlighting how diversity within our organizations can boost the bottom line of those businesses. If coordinating across global teams is the key to untapping the benefits of diversity, a high degree of “global fluency” is likely to be crucial.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 30, 2012

Add in the number of female CEOs at small and mid-sized companies, female upper level managers, and female entrepreneurs, and you can see that we’re actually talking about a large number. In the past, business was about cooperation, and we cooperated because we had to. Men are great at cooperating.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Organizational culture is also a key factor in levels of employee engagement, extra effort, innovation, morale, and teamwork. Change management processes create more rigidity and less agility. How much diversity is encouraged? “Magnet cultures” attract and retain the best people. Look at your meetings.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Humans can also come to the fore even if they offer no clear advantage over algorithms, simply because of the additional thought diversity they bring to the task. For instance, the author suggests humans are best place to conduct a sales call or lead a meeting, but analysis of financial results may be best left to computers.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 15, 2018

Results from 1,784 employees in 12 countries and six industries show that the generations are only a few percentage points different when asked about the importance of some of the characteristics we attribute to millennials, including: - Meaningful work: wanting purpose, not just a paycheck; managing work/life balance.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This blog post is the first of a two-part series on transformational growth and disruptive change by my dear friend Mark Thompson for the AMA (American Management Association). World Bank: Diversity and inclusion as a sustainable competitive advantage. Great leaders have to ask: Where does your innovation come from? Version 2.0

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 15, 2010

In addition to being a well-organized, clear writer, Morris is a Renaissance man who always sprinkles his writings and interviews with thoughtful insights drawn from remarkably diverse fields of knowledge. Check out his book reviews and interviews at this link and you’ll see what what I mean. why is everyone smiling?

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 23, 2021

The research, which focused on the construction and domestic sectors in India, China, Mexic, South Korea, South Africa, and the United States, found that many workers suffer from a lack of protection by standard employment laws, but can manage to organize one another and improve their work conditions.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

Setting aside social, political, and moral reasons for encouraging a more diverse workplace, there is arguably no better incentive for promoting diversity than the premise that diverse teams and organizations are more creative. For all the talk about the importance of creativity, the critical piece is really innovation.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

The new style of leadership is premised on trust , and the practice of management is now more art than science. No longer is there paying lip service to personal and professional growth –it’s a sound retention and innovation strategy. Control styles of management yield conformity and compliance, and this worked well for a long time.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 14, 2014

On the other hand, we are not all created equal when it comes to our diverse aptitudes and abilities. Their aptitudes lead to careers in making or managing investments, overseeing manufacturing, wholesale or retail businesses, resource development, technology, real estate, and finance/ banking. Why Innovation is not "Invented Here".

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

For example, a typical Mars plant manager influences associates by his or her ability to pace development of operational systems and innovative approaches. These operational managers' value to Mars is they initiate or design positive changes. It doesn't work that way elsewhere. Source: FORTUNE, February 4, 2013. ?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

But we have come to tolerate the illusion that the essential matters of work can be invented, managed, and sustained through the creation, storage, retrieval, display, and publication of information. What was invented as a means to replace the post office has now become the most common management tool in organizations.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It is still common for most managers to refer to people skills as “soft skills,” because they aren’t specifically about the business of the organization. But he aggregated people skills, managing emotions, personality and character traits into a single area of competence, further confusing the issue. And that's not all.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

I often hear this question when I visit companies and speak about how to make an innovative idea less terrifying to high level executives. There are plenty of pundits arguing that big companies need to innovate, and pointing out that it is difficult to do so. And yet management sponsorship is crucial for any ambitious initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

These ideas are the seeds of innovation : the intellectual foundation for any new products and services that enable some organizations to gain a competitive advantage over others. This mismanagement of innovation is further exacerbated by the fact that managing creatives tend to require special attention and consideration.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)? Not only does it provide tools and resources for those transitioning into a leadership role, it also includes development strategies for management teams who are overseeing the growth of new leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Why are some organizations able to innovate again and again while others hardly innovate at all? What’s different about Pixar that enables it not only to achieve, but also to sustain innovation? What’s different about Pixar that enables it not only to achieve, but also to sustain innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In prior blog posts, we have described how Western multinationals such as Xerox and GE are embracing polycentric innovation by sourcing more R&D capabilities from emerging markets such as India and China and integrating them into a synergistic global innovation network. Integrate with local innovation ecosystems. and the U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A 2008 survey of 250 managers in the UK revealed that 90% of them believed that political skill is required to succeed and to improve one’s career prospects. Specifically, research published in the British Journal of Management in 2013 finds that women view organizational politics as an expression of masculine culture.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Instead, companies that aim to build an inclusive environment with the intention to see diversity in experience and perspective, thrive with unlimited potential and creativity in every domain. However, the Deloitte study also emphasizes the importance of diversity and inclusion. Arbitrary inclusion practices will only get you so far.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Anderson Cooper. Cook’s new openness shows that Apple is walking its talk on diversity – positioning them even more favorably in the never-ending Silicon Valley talent wars. Apple Diversity' Michael Sam. All three broke barriers by coming out in their respective industries – comedy, television news, and football.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. So it's not surprising that we received a striking diversity of entries from every kind of organization and from every corner of the world. It's not enough to change one company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Instead, they sought to reenergize and leverage their own people, but, Karvinen explained, “We also did not just want to handpick the usual senior managers we had always worked with before, because we knew that, in order to drive the transformation of the company, we needed new and fresh perspectives.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? Take the example of a dairy cooperative I worked with recently. Alicia Llop/Getty Images. It’s more like a dog chasing its tail.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Some of the department managers received their mail with good grace, responding with a well-placed thank you and a smile. It was a small gesture but always with a big result and a willingness on my part to do more for those managers who had taken the time to acknowledge my existence despite my lowly placement on the hierarchical ladder.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

That was the question we put to a global community of hackers and innovators in the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge. In just two-and-a-half months, we received some 148 entries from leaders, thinkers, and innovators of all stripes, from every corner of the globe. Management Innovation According to Nature's Genius.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

As a professional speaker who delivers between 30-50 paid keynotes per year, here are three strategies I’ve discovered that can help you craft a successful talk that resonates with diverse attendees. First, it can be helpful to envision the sections of your speech as “modules” that you can shift and reshuffle as needed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

In fact, most teams we see, aren't — because their managers focus on building the most effective relationships they can with each individual who works for them. They spend their time managing person by person, paying little attention to collective performance. It's easy to extol teamwork, but not every group is a team.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Instead of institution-based siloes and command-and-control, Ebola demands the collective problem-solving and action of a virtual community — and the mobilization of an entire ecosystem of diverse players. The struggle of the old management model is playing out before our very eyes. Crisis management Leadership Managing uncertainty'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

For example, Susan Fowler’s 2017 blog about Uber detailed not only her recollections of being repeatedly harassed, but what she described as a “game-of-thrones” environment, in which managers sought to one-up and sabotage colleagues to get ahead. Organizations rely on cooperative teamwork to succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

In fact, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimates that almost a quarter (24.2%) of all New Zealanders with university-level educations have emigrated. We also asked the directors to assess their companies’ performance on talent management by evaluating the following nine practices: attracting top talent.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

Like any manager keen to maximize the potential of a great employee, Mark went out of his way to learn more about Jennifer. In the work on diversity and innovation we have conducted over recent years, we came to understand some of the keys of tribal thinking, and how some companies are successfully leveraging it.

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