Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2016

Anything that threatens this faces resistance and conflict as part of self-preservation. Because we cause resistance. Yet rarely do we make a dent. Every day, in every way, we regenerate our biases; in service to maintaining systems congruence, we filter in/out anything that causes us to question status quo. Nor do we need to.

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Resistance System Learning-by-Doing Diversity 50

Change Starts Here

JUNE 9, 2015

Clients have successfully applied Enclaria’s change management methodology on projects as diverse as: System installation. Learn how to uncover and reduce resistance. Uncover and Reduce Resistance. Strategy execution. Process improvement. Increasing engagement. New service start up. Relocation. Culture change. Team development.

Course 60

Course Management Workshop Influence 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

One of the mistakes CEOs often make with their diversity efforts is assuming everyone shares their goals. The software engineer sent a lengthy written commentary around the company, characterizing Google’s efforts to create a more gender-balanced workforce as an ideological crusade. It’s the first big tech company to do so.

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Diversity Goal Engineering Mentor 8

Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

So, we draw on very diverse examples of innovation – from science through to sports and from architecture through to social innovation – and the framework is really meant to help anybody who is facing challenges and looking to come up with original solutions. This can trip us up throughout the innovation process.

How To 111

How To Innovation Creativity Entrepreneur 111

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

When employees actively participate in the formulation and implementation of change programs, they are more likely to support them and less likely to resist them. In the second study, we surveyed 124 professionals, working for a diverse set of U.S.

Participative 8

Participative How To Diversity Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. For example, Dr. Velma Deleveaux, a director at Booz Allen Hamilton, leads a Science and Engineering business.

Succession 14

Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine.

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Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Businesses can be equally complex: a diversity initiative, for example, might include some compulsory training, but if this triggers sentiments of resistance and skepticism, it can be self-defeating. In 1972, the policy was therefore adjusted so that only man-made fires were fought. As we now know, the company lost to rivals.

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Execution Strategy Gantt Chart Film 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

Employees skeptically prepared for yet another exhausting effort to transform the company into an efficient growth engine. In other words, it was the kind of change that Mother Aetna traditionally resisted with every passive-aggressive move she could muster. In late 2000, John W. Rowe, MD, became Aetna's fourth CEO in five years.

Health Care 14

Health Care Restructuring Resistance Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Activists’ interventions are often described, favorably or not depending on your point of view, as slashing and burning, taking out cost, and engaging in financial engineering. Is the company’s portfolio too diverse? But that’s an unfair oversimplification.

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

When they persisted and came back with new computational capabilities, I couldn’t resist: “If you can really do this ,” I observed, “I’d rather hire you to develop this new product I’ve been thinking about than work on my research.”

Globalization 8

Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

He had recently commented on a discussion on GHDonline.org regarding critical gaps in the diagnosis and treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis. In health care, we thought, they could be a rapid, practical means for diverse professionals to share insights and tactics. You can view all of the features of GHDOnline here (PDF).

Globalization 9

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

That makes sense; in most organizations HR is responsible for diversity and inclusion initiatives and for labor relations. Resisting stretch goals. Only in HR, Engineering, and Safety do male senior leaders score higher than their female counterparts. Building positive relationships.

360-Degree Feedback 8

360-Degree Feedback Skills Positioning Teamwork 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

Who doesn’t want to live in a future free from congestion, collisions, and pollution from combustion engines and the petroleum supply chain? — that I hope adds diverse and contrarian thinking to discussions of a driverless future. By and large, journalists and other commentators have been happy to go along for the ride.

Transportation 8

Transportation Supply Chain System Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Which is perhaps why the rest of the internet ecosystem has strongly resisted opt-in rules all along, and rightly so. That’s a source of inefficiency very few consumers will find at all helpful; more likely, quite the opposite.

Advertising 9

Advertising Proposal Information Content 9

LDRLB

AUGUST 15, 2012

In the research I did with Professor Will Mitchell (Duke & Toronto University) on 150 telecom firms, I find that firms prepared to grow in diverse ways outperform the ones that narrowly focus on one single mode. Firms have to overcome resistance of entrenched groups and leaders. The reliance on a single growth mode is misplaced.

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CEO Licensing Retail Resources 131

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Janitor | custodian | sanitation engineer. Housewife | homemaker | domestic engineer. Yet, out of fear, they fight, resist and are combative toward change and to those who are change agents. Diversity is a concept that encompasses ideas, cultures, philosophies and behaviors. Washroom attendant | maid | domestic | steward.

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Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 69

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

Branch 2: Environmental, safety, IT systems design and computer software, training for computers and technology, architecture, engineering and legal. Branch 4: Training for diversity, team building, professional education and development, motivational and executive development-mentoring.

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Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

A professional with proven ability to manage change and work across diverse areas, as required, can be a great asset to an organization. A flexible employee demonstrates proficiency in a variety of areas, allowing for greater use of skills and less resistance to re-organizations, transformations, or company developments.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Most workplaces face constant imperatives for change—from trivial-seeming matters such as installing new office printers to major ones such as implementing new policies to support diversity. The question of how to drive change, though, is perennially vexing. ” Are You the Best Messenger?

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Hovland Sherif Company Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

But although these forces created a brain that can solve highly complex problems, create art, and feel compassion, our clever brains let us down in one key respect: greenhouse gases and other byproducts of our very living now pose an accelerating threat to the future of the planet and its diverse forms of interconnected life, including our own.

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Short-term System Learning-by-Doing Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

In addition, diversity among women in management has improved, albeit marginally. Among the new positions to emerge since 1980, women make up less than 10% of architecture, engineer, and construction managers. Once we see patterns, we can implement programs that effectively promote equity and diversity in the workplace.

Management 10

Management Real Estate Human Resources Diversity 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see. As I described in an article in the May issue of HBR , a single 3D printer can produce engine pumps one day and crankshafts the next.

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Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

Many fail to focus the data science program, or they put data scientists in the wrong spots in the organization; others view the data science as a technical, not business, initiative; and still others underestimate how resistant their organizations are to change, and do not fully equip data scientists to change hearts and minds.

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Katz Follow-up Quality Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

So leaders need to treat new initiatives not as mere organizational governance, but as a grassroots movement of small, interconnected groups, each with varying thresholds of resistance—some enthusiastic, others hostile and many in between. He called the phenomenon the strength of weak ties.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

So leaders need to treat new initiatives not as mere organizational governance, but as a grassroots movement of small, interconnected groups, each with varying thresholds of resistance—some enthusiastic, others hostile and many in between. He called the phenomenon the strength of weak ties.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

When people actually believe that balance benefits their business, resistance to targets diminishes. What worked: Strategic framing : The more HBS framed their change initiative as a culture change for effective leadership and business performance, not as ‘diversity’ or a ‘women’s’ initiative,’ the more effective they were.

Diversity 8

Diversity Bottom-up Class Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

Resist either/or thinking about your identities. For example, a participant a different study explained that all of his various jobs—IT engineer, journalist, and entertainer—converged around the skill of writing. ” By getting it out and understanding it, we can get ahead of the fear.

How To 11

How To Learning-by-Doing Examples Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

The research of decision scientists reveals that our best strategy for tackling these problems is to harness cognitive diversity, because groups do better than individuals, including those with the highest IQs. Diversity, as Scott Page puts it, trumps ability. Structured deliberation is key.

Productivity 16

Productivity Products Brainstorming Diversity 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

The research of decision scientists reveals that our best strategy for tackling these problems is to harness cognitive diversity, because groups do better than individuals, including those with the highest IQs. Diversity, as Scott Page puts it, trumps ability. Structured deliberation is key.

Productivity 12

Productivity Products Brainstorming Diversity 12