Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Common examples include: “It’s just the way things are done here.” “If Drawing inspiration from metaphorical applications of guerrilla warfare and coup d’état strategies, this paper proposes a series of approaches to empower individuals and collectives to challenge and overturn these clichés (Roberts, 2019).

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 20, 2021

Exoskeletons are an example of a technology that has become increasingly potent, but new research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology explores whether the technology is designed for the average person. This fails to account for the huge variety in sizes found around the world. ” Technology for all?

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Gig workers are sometimes called “ moonlighters ” (especially if they have another primary job) because their additional temporary positions allow them to have more diverse sources of income rather than relying on one regular employer.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. Reserved your spot? All leaders should commit to these actions.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

But those developments mask the more fundamental issue. Tech, for example, has been unable to support women at any level. s progress on gender diversity issues has slipped below the global median. On the Atlantic side, proposals and programs proliferate in the countries of the European Union and with the EU itself.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JULY 1, 2021

Even for those recurring conversations like, for example, putting someone on probation, interviewing candidates for promotion or explaining deep-red lines in a budget proposal, the different and unique people, teams and leaders involved change the scenario enough that no formula or script can truly be applied. Does your team have one?

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2021

For instance, it’s increasingly clear that we are valuing not just the size of our pay packet at work, but also various non-financial aspects, such as camaraderie with our colleagues, personal development opportunities, and meaningful work. The research proposes a couple of possible solutions to these problems.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 19, 2019

As such, there has been various proposals designed to ignite innovation and economic growth in rural areas, primarily through various regional innovation agencies. There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach that can be applied. What’s more, the findings are especially important given the Brexit process.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

“Nations that prioritize its development, its attraction, its retention, and its movement across borders will be best positioned to compete. This allows the researchers to gain a unique insight into the role immigration plays, and the vital role business schools are playing as the gatekeepers of immigration and talent development.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

We know intuitively that innovation goals are well served by cross-functional “SWAT” teams that are diverse in their membership. As Andy Zynga argued in an earlier post , diversity is a means to overcome the cognitive biases that prevent people from seeing new approaches or engaging them when found. Creativity Diversity Innovation'

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Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

However in the virtual world or world of social media, manners are still developing. But if that person proposes a discussion on that topic, then it is good manners to add, discuss, explore. We value and need diversity throughout the ongoing transitions and evolution. Manners Online – definition.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Most companies make big investments in leadership development, rolling out intensive internal programs for high potentials, sending key leaders off to expensive executive education programs, or hiring personal coaches for those moving into key positions at the top of the company. ” Develop: Let them improvise. What works instead?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Supervisors too often lack people development skills or organizational influence. It can help to write the qualities you want to develop and match them with a list of people who exhibit them. If one doesn’t exist, propose a project that aligns with the corporate values or vision or that solves a stated need.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

So far in 2017, our firm, Semler Brossy, has identified 200 shareholder proposals on the environment among the Russell 3000 companies, already exceeding 2016’s total. Average investor support for such proposals has reached a new high of 29%. Four proposals received majority support, more than in the previous six years combined.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

A 2015 PwC study of 6,000 senior executives , conducted using a research methodology developed by David Rooke of Harthill Consulting and William Torbert of Boston University, revealed just how pervasive this shortfall is: Only 8 percent of the respondents turned out to be strategic leaders, or those effective at leading transformations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

When an executive at global services firm UBS Americas challenged trainees to design a cost-saving strategy, one young woman proposed that the company install software that puts a computer into sleep mode after a period of inactivity. As remarkable as this is, it isn’t an isolated example. Fill critical skills gaps.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In addition, we believe that your starting point for strategy development is what you are already great at, rather than studying the industry and market for opportunities. Is it more important to consider capabilities when you develop a strategy now than it was, say, five years ago? SD : Why now? What do most companies do instead?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Given their day jobs — which at academic medical centers often include research, writing grant proposals, and tending to patients — they have little time. Many of them could not handle the highly diverse projects that we wanted to support — from algorithms to apps to devices. Build a diverse team.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

So Nambiar proposed that two down-at-the-heels branches in Kolkata and New Delhi undergo a complete overhaul. Consider the Standard Chartered example: Just as important as Nambiar''s idea was the environment in which she pitched it. Women''s ideas won''t translate into marketable products or services unless leadership backs them.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Recent global developments underscore the importance of these societal issues. election and Brexit are only the most recent examples of the pervasive, burgeoning importance to corporations of business-in-society issues. Similarly, whether the Brexit vote last June will help or hurt businesses in the UK and EU is still uncertain.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

The innate value of a network and what you get out of it can make or break your chances for development. For example, one woman I interviewed described her networks like a spiderweb that drew many different people together. For example, the golden skirts is an informal network supporting women on corporate boards.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

For example, women do not achieve promotions or advancement to leadership positions at the same rate as their male peers. Implicit, or “unconscious,” bias against women in medicine is prevalent, affecting their hiring, promotions, development, and wellbeing. Implicit gender and maternal bias. Career flexibility.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. Victor Albrow/Getty Images. Over the last five years, U.S. They are fix-what’s-broken visits.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

He has focused on a two-tier approach: the first introduces physicians to the fundamental principles of business in the delivery of healthcare, and personal leadership development, through a day a month programme spread over a year. 61% of the proposed innovation projects have had a positive institutional impact.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Co-founders also bring diversity of talent and high dedication, and mitigate the loneliness and stress of life at a young company. Companies that do not appear to have strong core philosophies, or that abandon them, tend to wander — Apple under Sculley and H-P post-Platt, for examples.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Our research shows that the same inclusive leadership behaviors that leverage diversity to drive innovation and market growth can enable managers to support individuals with disabilities. Offer leadership development opportunities to employees with disabilities. Provide role models.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Develop an inclusive vision of high growth entrepreneurship. Boston's Mayor Menino and his staff developed and have repeated hundreds of times the mantra of the Innovation District: "Live, work, play." The fuzziness was a counter-intuitive advantage in engaging diverse stakeholders to define for themselves the role they would play.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Portfolio management is conventionally associated with financial strategies: Instead of putting all of your money in one place, you spread it around and create a diverse portfolio of different types of investments — stocks, bonds, small-cap, large-cap, domestic, international, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

However, in firms diversified into unrelated businesses, CMO power needs to be moderate –for political and rational reasons, since such firms have powerful divisional heads with diverse agendas. One way in which the CMO position gains power is when the CMO is given the additional responsibility of other functions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

It''s tough to find examples of successfully challenging the boss, even tougher to find stories of leaders who specifically ask to be challenged. When ideas are still being developed or decisions still being considered, criticism and constructive conflict are vital to testing the value of the ideas and helping increase that value.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We therefore propose that just as team members today have assigned doing roles, there should also be thinking roles. So after a lot of co-creation and trial-and-error, we developed a three-step method that delivers practical and meaningful results. Do you tend to pay the most attention to ideas, process, action, or relationships?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

They can seek out sponsors and others to support and develop them in those roles. In our work with leadership development programs, we focus on a "small wins" approach to change. For example, some executives made a commitment to review the job criteria for leadership roles.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Carve out some team development time to do these exercises before your next contentious discussion. As an example, if you are in a cross-functional meeting with sales and production, the production person might be advocating for more standardization, control, and efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

For many women in the developing world, a better approach may be to gain employment in existing companies. In both developed and developing economies, women have the bulk of the responsibility for young children and the elderly, along with the bulk of housework duties.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Increasing inequality of income and wealth has occurred across the developed world for the past 30 years, with the majority of the gains from technology, globalization and deregulation accruing to a small minority in each country. This is now accepted as fact by organizations as diverse as the IMF and Standard and Poor’s.

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