HR Digest

APRIL 18, 2024

You must lead by example, embracing transparency and open communication like a seasoned tanguero. After all, in the remote realm, feedback is the fuel that propels personal and professional growth, ensuring your team stays sharp and adaptable. The Trust Tango : Building trust in a remote setting is akin to a delicate dance.

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Team Bond How To Management 52

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 30, 2011

” For example. Great strategies bring a razor sharpness to the company that energizes both employees and customers. My biggest challenge was educating a diverse group of Board members on the value of focused strategies. I say, “If the opportunity isn’t strategic, let the competitor have it!”

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2021

As the COVID-19 crisis takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of redefining jobs moves up the agenda. Some examples include the Black Employee Network (BEN), Amazon Women in Engineering (AWE), and Indigenous@. The HR Digest: What is Amazon’s secret sauce for being recognized several times as “Great Place to Work?”

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Quality Engineering Technology Resources 59

Deming Institute

MARCH 14, 2017

Gipsie loved to travel to experience diverse cultures and history, taking many trips to Europe, Africa and Asia. She had a sharp mind and sharp wit; reminiscent of Dr. Deming in many ways. We also benefit from her example of expanding one’s horizon in interpreting Dr. Deming’s theory of management. Edwards Deming.

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Deming Sharpe Seminar Quality 28

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

In today’s workplace, diversity is more than just a buzzword; it’s a way to build a stronger business. At Pinterest, we understand that diverse teams yield smarter , more innovative results, which are essential in the competitive, dynamic tech industry. Setting diversity goals isn’t enough.

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Diversity Engineering Goal Industry 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 4, 2016

Put some thought behind these key questions and work out some good, positive answers with real life examples from your career so far. He is also a sales consultant, owns several diverse businesses, and teaches on the world’s leading online learning platform Udemy. How should they be dressed? Look the part.

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Positioning SWOT Mission Statement Sharpe 50

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. It can empower people to take a point of view and allow the organization to benefit from diverse points of view. For example, we worked with Washington University in St.

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. Moreover, fixed assets are more difficult to leverage across diverse businesses than capabilities, and they tend to expire, become obsolete, or give way to related services. It’s a ‘sharp pencil’ capabilities system rooted in superior information.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

Consider the signature dish Le cinque stagionature del Parmigiano Reggiano in diverse consistenze e temperature , or “the five different ages of Parmigiano Reggiano in five different textures and temperatures.” For example, he sometimes asks his staff to create dishes based on a piece of music, a painting, or a poem.

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Creativity Sharpe Diversity Wilde 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

For example, an executive considering whether to acquire a target company will gather facts about the industry and target company, consider how the combined companies will perform, and come up with a value that shows the deal is good for the acquirer. When views are diverse, prices tend to reflect value reasonably well.

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Beyer Tversky Price Kahneman 14

You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 20, 2009

This is one pretty sharp boss!) Susan Mazza March 22, 2009 at 2:05 pm This is a great example that fun doesn’t have to cost money or take a lot of time. Announces Social Media, Branding & Diversity Strategies" by @ bizshrink. THE THEME: Viagra advertising slogans. … Really?

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Advertising Blog Stress McCarthy 40

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

The choice — to build a sales organization around customers or products — has vexed every company with a diverse product portfolio. These swords are reasonable choices that sales leaders make that have a sharp beneficial edge, but the very nature of the benefit is tied to another sharp edge that has drawbacks.

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Productivity Products Organization Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

For example, an executive considering whether to acquire a target company will gather facts about the industry and target company, consider how the combined companies will perform, and come up with a value that shows the deal is good for the acquirer. When views are diverse, prices tend to reflect value reasonably well.

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Beyer Tversky Price Kahneman 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

For example, Dr. Velma Deleveaux, a director at Booz Allen Hamilton, leads a Science and Engineering business. The onus to improving gender diversity in STEM shouldn’t solely be placed on women’s shoulders, but systemic change can be slow. These confrontations can be quick and tactful.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. Find work that keeps you sharp and keeps you in a learning mode.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

In addition, shareholders don’t necessarily want directors and management to speak “with one voice” (another commonly cited reason for assigning shareholder engagement to the CEO) and value diversity of views that may suggest a board is looking at important matters holistically and has not succumbed to groupthink.

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CEO Groupthink Sharpe Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Income inequality has, for example, become a hot topic. Since unions fell into sharp decline in the private sector in the 1970s, the private-sector wage gap between blacks and whites has grown. Compensation Diversity Economy' What doesn’t get talked about so much, though, are the consequences. Who’s going to do them now?

Politics 11

Politics Sharpe Education Hotels 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Much to my surprise, I found that these extremely successful family business owners don’t draw a sharp (and artificial) line between “us” and “them” – the mentally healthy and those less healthy. I do not believe that people on the edge of mania, for example, are more productively creative, insightful, or more brilliant.

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Execution Emotional Intelligence Open-book Sharpe 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

This may sound obvious, but it was in sharp contrast to typical patterns in the pharma industry of recruiting from within, resistance to new thinking, and sclerotic bureaucratic structures. Roivant’s second innovation initiative was to forcefully inject an openness to fresh thinking and outside practices.

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Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

For example, in interviewing people who detest video games, one set of researchers came up with the insight that a lot of games are too complicated and controllers are too hard to maneuver; the result was the Wii. But not only does Lady Gaga have a great and sticky thesis, she’s endowed with a sharp mind for branding.

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Norton Brand Sharpe Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

The shifting energy equation, for example, sets the stage for growth. The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking. Keep a laser sharp focus on gross margin. Keep the pressure on productivity.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

Russia’s industrialization also means that the market offers substantial opportunities in diverse B2B sectors such as mining, oil and gas, metallurgy, chemicals, light industry, and consumer durables. It’s time companies ask themselves: Who can actually afford our products now? How has that group changed over the past year?

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

It is the more versatile, general-purpose charities — including such well-known, diverse institutions as The United Way Worldwide and the Salvation Army — that are faring the worst. Why the disparity? Our own research on organizational strategy and leadership more broadly suggests a reason.

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Crisis Mayo Strategy Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

In general we find that teams of four offer enough diversity and engage quickly with the challenges they select. But for jamming to pay dividends, problems need sharp definition, even if this requires more effort up-front. For example, SIGG , a Swiss producer of aluminum bottles, used a "random words" exercise in a jamming session.

Innovation 8

Innovation Blue Ocean Strategy Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The manuscript is locked up but I am still finding examples. In a culture that flowers with an increasingly diverse variety, this is useful. Pinterest founders Ben Silbermann , and Evan Sharp are mapping American culture. Who, and has the astounding ability to turn up in exactly the right place at the exactly the right time.

Marketing 14

Marketing Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Elsewhere, at Chrysler by way of one well known counter-example, private equity has had a less sure impact on value creation. Whether major investors on a board add or subtract value has become a contentious debate of the era, fueled by a sharp rise in activist campaigns.

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Hedge Sharpe Short-term Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Let''s consider a recent example: Boeing''s lithium ion batteries for the Dreamliner 787. And over the years, I''ve helped many others conduct simple and effective experiments in areas as diverse as customer onboarding to policy deployment. As you probably know, the issue has been all over the news for a couple of months.

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Sample Information Technology Industry Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

It continues to live on in places as far-flung and diverse as Iran, Burma and Zimbabwe, just to name a few. The contrast is sharp and it is no accident. For example, rather than focusing on staging large-scale demonstrations, in the beginning Otpor focused on street theatre and pranks to embarrass the regime.

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 30, 2019

American escape room businesses, especially, as failing to tap into diverse audience groups. Indeed, as escape rooms are designed to keep the mind sharp, they can be an ideal activity for retirement homes. #6. For example, hiding numbers in pictures is a classic puzzle. You can’t build an escape room without good puzzles.

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Audience Open-book Entrepreneur Proposal 59

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Below are nine key steps we’ve taken to reduce bias in our selection cycle, convince people we’re serious and thus draw a more diverse group of outstanding speakers. By way of example, Eric and I are both white, and we have successfully drawn dozens of people of color to give excellent talks at our conferences. Diversity Gender'

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Conference Stage-Gate Proposal Ries 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

A healthy range of diversity in terms of age, skin color, religious conviction, culture, or/and sexual orientation? Before you congratulate yourself on how diverse your workplace is, what if we told you it might not be diverse enough — or at least not in the ways that matter most? Differences — Not Just Diversity.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Diversity Creativity Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

A recent experiment I performed at a major STEM organization provides an example. .” The solution is to go more in-depth — much more so than sexual harassment trainings typically do. To establish a baseline, we used our 10-minute Workplace Experiences Survey to measure ambient levels of racial and gender bias.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Workshop Diversity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

There are over two thousand consumer-focused subscription businesses capitalizing upon customers’ diverse tastes. Approximately 13% of subscription businesses tracked by the subscription-related website My Subscription Addiction have failed, and many more have seen sharp reversals of fortune.

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

They had to cut the deficit and she wanted to set standards by personal example. But, at the same time, they must "tone it down" or risk being labeled as having sharp elbows. IMF head Christine Lagarde tells a story about a woman leader she met who took over at a tough moment in her country's history and resolved to be different.

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Sharpe Travel Leadership Styles Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

GRAVES: Clinton’s categorization of Trump supporters as deplorable is an example of what behavioral scientists call outgroup derogation. They’re enthusiastic, diverse, hopeful — eager participants in our democracy. SIMPSON: These are great examples, but Apple is still in business, and so are Clinton and Trump.

Brand 9

Brand Public Relations Fashion Follow-up 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Here are some of the principles I’ve used as a boss for smoothly navigating political discussions: Be aware of the situations that might trigger a sharp exchange. For example, my team was talking about advertising stocks getting hurt because of the fracturing of consumer viewing habits and the impact on traditional media outlets.

Politics 9

Politics Sharpe Media Diversity 9