Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2019

One of the most important is checking that the person you are hiring actually has the legal right to work in the country in which you are operating. Of course, you are going to have to make sure that you and your new employee have an official agreement about what you should get from them, and what they can expect from you in return.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 20, 2023

The human resources sector of the business world continues to evolve and change drastically. Bureau of Statistics, about 675,000 jobs were occupied by human resource professionals in 2020. In this article, we try to break down what human resources is all about and detail what different employers might require for the job.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

Collectively known as "operational risks", these latter costs are substantial yet, if managed properly, could significantly, reduce the bottom line with few negative side effects. Of course, reducing costs by managing operational risks requires a change of mindset, a more comprehensive strategy and a change of heart.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

GE now operates in 175 countries across the globe.) So a constant reengineering of our business portfolio, operating model, and culture has been a key to our evolution. Of course, leaders, too, can set a different tone: Jack Welch, Lee Iacocca, Lou Gerstner, and Steve Jobs all did that. Let’s take the 1990s.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 4, 2022

The Star Wars website gives this definition, “The Force is a mysterious energy field created by life that binds the galaxy together.” Less effective managers see “their people” as coin-operated human resources (assets with skin) to be manipulated with money. Which approach do you mostly use?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

What links the world together has changed fundamentally — and for many companies, succeeding in this new operating environment will require rethinking many past decisions and assumptions. Corporations generate a large share of internet traffic through private networks used to share information and manage their international operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Dave didn’t advocate any particular design model, just one the leader knows how to employ and one flexible enough to be applied to the range of organizational situations a leader faces in the course of a career. A better course is devoting time to considering what organizational functions truly bring the value proposition to life.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

As CFO, Noelle was, of course, concerned about the numbers. She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. It’s like we’re surgeons who have a patient bleeding out on the operating table. Do we join hands and sing Kumbaya?

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Ben: Well today’s about servant leadership and of course, that ties a lot into influential leadership. And you know, I can only find one definitive statement about leadership that he said. Ben: Yeah, definitely. A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Ben: Well today’s about servant leadership and of course, that ties a lot into influential leadership. And you know, I can only find one definitive statement about leadership that he said. Ben: Yeah, definitely. A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

He had spent the last two months interviewing for a position as director of operations at a sporting goods company. His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.” How refreshing.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Sales could be developing a behaviorally informed strategy, while operations looks for ways to cut costs. Each organization’s needs and current level of competence will be different, so there aren’t definite answers. An obvious place is within an existing operational excellence or performance department.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Human Resources groups have many line responsibilities of their own, such as succession planning, setting pay scales, and selecting the benefits package. They also work with other departments to help hire and train the human capabilities they need. The corporate DG must also own the end-to-end metadata processes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

He then announced that his heart just wasn't in the lab; he missed going to work every day in an otolaryngology clinic and seeing patients, but of course he could not practice medicine in Belgium. But mobility definitely has a purpose. But our French operations are so minimal that we don't have openings for them. Am I right?".

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Our journey to transform our business from a traditional cigarette manufacturer to a science and technology-driven company is one of the most dramatic pivots taken by a major multinational company in recent history, so by definition, it impacts our people deeply. Philip Morris International Operations Center Lausanne, Switzerland.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Some howlers and growlers definitely made it through, and generally standards plummeted. Now of course we are all suffering from the same affliction. The creative industry operates largely by holding ‘creative’ people ransom to their own self-image, precarious sense of self-worth, and fragile – if occasionally out of control ego.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Organizations have always depended on data — to manage operations, to communicate with customers, to pay employees and suppliers, to plan their futures, and so forth. Of course, competing through lowered cost, providing better products, and innovating are nothing new. Everything is just a little better as result.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Or you could find that your definitions of success for the role are radically different. She took online courses in HTML, Adobe, and Excel and listened to webinars for job-seeking tips. She also sought the advice of friends working in human resource positions about how to tackle questions about her short duration at the company.

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