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Am I A Nice Boss?

Lead Change Blog

Of course, it’s difficult to remember everything, especially if your span of control is 25 or more—let alone if you also want to remember things about all the coworkers your direct colleagues guide in the everyday operation of your organization. and sufficient opportunities for further development. Be generous.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career. Fewer junior scientists reported to each senior scientist.

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Internal Hires Need Orientation Too

Harvard Business Review

As someone who has been in the business of hiring people and developing people organizations for many years, I’ve noticed two common first-day-on-the-job scenarios. After an employee transitions into a new role, the manager must take time to get to know them and understand their strengths, successes, and development needs.

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Are You Giving Up Power?

Harvard Business Review

You know that social interactions with the marketplace are becoming a source for innovation, strategy, product development, organizational alignment, and pretty much every important thing your organization does. These allow you to direct activities and allocate resources — and by doing so, control other people.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. He built a team to develop Predix, a cloud-based platform that underlies all of GE’s industrial businesses. Don’t blindly accept assumptions about Wall Street myopia. Cut layers.

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Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year

Harvard Business Review

The average span of control in these and other vanguard organizations is more than double the U.S. Managers and administrators tend to be better educated than the workforce at large and typically possess technical or functional skills. The case of Svenska Handelsbanken is illustrative.

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