N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Even today, investing in more formalized measures of self-assessment can be crucial to developing your skills and shifting your attention towards goals that are truly aligned with your strengths. Having a successful career is a common life goal , and yet many of us appear to be engaged in temporary jobs filled with uncertainty.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

When organizations introduce new processes or systems, or when they want to stimulate performance for certain business practices, they often assemble dedicated task forces, assign them specific goals, and identify deadlines and financial rewards. That is not to say that managers should avoid using monetary incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. Establish Common Goals. With that in mind, they must seek four changes.

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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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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 22, 2015

As much as upper management may wish it were so, organizations rarely have a uniform culture. Some subcultures of control become abusive when managers go overboard (think of Nurse Ratched in the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”). What are we to believe and what does this controversy say about the modern workplace?

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Competitive Advantage Licensing Survey Cooper 150

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

That afternoon, you hash out specific goals and plans that will fulfill your purpose. Purpose, goals, plans. Performance metrics and feedback. On the final day, the group coalesces around a clear statement of purpose — not just the what of your task but the why and who benefits in responding to the challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Unilever agreed, but required of Ben & Jerry’s management that they work out a way of measuring their social mission performance by creating “Social Metrics.” Finally, you need to actually populate the MCS to measure, manage, and report performance vis a vis the AOIs. AOI Development. Pilot Projects.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. In the wake of the scandal, GSK changed its incentive policy to evaluate employees who work with customers on a wider variety of metrics, including technical knowledge, quality of service, and adherence to company values.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

When Jobs said, "Fuck the channel," he taught me something: our job as innovative business leaders is to manage the present while inventing the future. Start unlearning by explicitly recognizing that these metrics or assumptions are from the past and not necessarily useful for the future. Reward learning and cooperation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

the goals are aligned. The alignment of investors' interests with the executive team's goals. Companies get offers to be acquired, but at much lower valuation than the original dream goal. Sometimes you're asking them to take the long view when they're rewarded by a different set of metrics. Apple wants to be cool.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Extreme schedules remain a key metric of manliness. A recent study reported that male managers in such marriages found organizations with egalitarian gender attitudes less appealing and were more likely to give women low job evaluations. Today, managing diversity is not limited to women, LGBTQ individuals, or people of color.

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Diversity Ethics Report Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2012

We consider the ability to manage a team so important that, in a recent book , we made it one of the "3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader:" Manage Your Team — the first imperative — is about creating a real team and managing through it. Manage your team" might seem clear and straightforward.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In a new global survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), 90 percent of respondents said their organizations failed to reach all of their strategic goals because of flawed implementation. Deliver a Strategy That Works by Managing Culture and Communication. 6: Promote team engagement and effective cross-business cooperation.

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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. The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal. It's not enough to change one company.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

However, the problem with this approach (what I call the doing approach) is that it competes on race-to-the-bottom metrics: low cost, high volume, and speedy delivery. The goal was to find ways to use copper to combat the spread of infections. Orchestrate public-private cooperation through robust policy development.

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