The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2023

And those “missing from the workforce,” presently not employed but capable of participating in gainful employment under suitable conditions. The researchers propose various things that managers can do to change things.

Human Resources 59

Human Resources Trends Proposal Resources 59

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 17, 2019

Machiavelli aptly described the uncertainty inherent in proposing any kind of change in The Prince , and the fear of rejection and loss of face is indeed considerable. New research from Exeter Business School suggests that a matching platform similar in style to Tinder could help remove that fear and ensure innovation occurs more frequently.

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Project Game Theory Proposal Participative 62

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

In terms of solutions, Ann emphasised the need for employers to promote women proportionately through the ranks, offer flexible working solutions for those on career breaks and create sponsorship programs that cater to women from diverse backgrounds. CMI’s proposal has already been picked up in the media and some key influencers.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Application of design thinking to help solve myriad problems that are not typically associated with design is illuminated in a new book through vignettes drawn from such diverse realms as politics and society, business, health and science, law, and writing. Design thinking can be a critical tool for addressing leadership challenges.

Creativity 59

Creativity Strategic Planning Construction Politics 59

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Leaders have long recognized that a diverse workforce of women, people of color, and LGBT individuals confers a competitive edge in terms of selling products or services to diverse end users. In the context of the workplace, diversity equals representation. In fact, without inclusion there’s often a diversity backlash.

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Diversity Career Focus Group Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

I often hear this question when I visit companies and speak about how to make an innovative idea less terrifying to high level executives. There are plenty of pundits arguing that big companies need to innovate, and pointing out that it is difficult to do so. Have you actually seen this done?”. The skepticism is warranted.

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Innovation P&L Short-term Company 11

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Transactional leadership might be a motivator when money and better benefits are available, but today’s climate seems to lend itself more to transformational leadership where a caring leadership can stimulate innovation, creative thinking, and productivity. P romote Participation. Involve employees in decision making.

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Newsletter Learning-by-Doing Mentor Resources 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Sloan continued, "Then, I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what this decision is about.". Conflict is an indicator that diverse viewpoints are being considered and that the competition for ideas is still ongoing.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 30, 2020

As innovation is increasingly important to organizations, there is a growing exploration of what conditions might encourage people to be innovative. ” Incentives matter. ” Incentives matter. . ” Incentives matter. Even among the teams, however, those in the winner-takes-all camp still performed better.

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Innovation Influence Incentives Participative 95

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

Begin by reaching out to diverse members of your ecosystem, include them in a co-creation process from the outset, and prioritize the growth of that ecosystem as you cultivate the growth of the initiative itself – a process which one of us detailed in a previous article. Ask participants to commit something toward the initiative.

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Innovation Early Adopters Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Rather than handpick the usual senior managers, a team called Pathbuilder was formed of a diverse group of insiders to present senior leaders with new ideas. First, and most important, by relying on the self-nomination approach, the company tapped into the hidden energy, diversity, and skills of its employees.

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Company Participative Diversity Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Physicians, nurses, and others who work on the front lines of patient care are an important potential source for innovations that could improve patients’ health and reduce the cost of care. Boston Children’s Hospital designed an innovation accelerator to overcome these hurdles. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It serves vastly diverse populations: toddlers and caregivers, new immigrants, lifelong learners, famous novelists, and scholars. Library leaders knew that given the immense changes brought on by digital innovations, as well as shifts in the communities that the Library served, it would need to evolve. How to get them engaged?

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Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

The notion that innovation and failure go hand-in-hand has become popular of late. It begins with the argument that many important innovations involved taking risks with potentially large costs but, most critically, completely unknown upsides. Had Capecchi failed and wasted that money, his career would have been shattered.

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Innovation Rate of Return Diversity Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

How can we mindfully connect people who want to participate in this global network of knowledge and ideas? Around the world, repressive regimes are putting in place or proposing measures that restrict free expression and affect fundamental rights. But its success has generated a worrying backlash.

Globalization 14

Globalization Film Participative Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Earlier this month in Strasbourg, European Commission Vice President Viviane Reding proposed a new law that would enforce quotas of 40% for women's representation on European corporate boards by 2020. Within corporations, gender diversity initiatives that are added on to the same old way of doing business cannot have significant impact.

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Diversity Mentor System Career 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The most common chief executive exaltation we hear is “We must be more innovative, agile, and adaptable.” We were struck by the dissonance with the ambition — if you want to be more innovative and agile and anything could happen, isn’t that a truly brilliant notion? Participative Execution.

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Execution Strategy Webinar Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The right to win is the ability to enter or participate in any competitive market with the reasonably justified belief that you will succeed and create value. CDS starts with what you as a company do best – better than anyone else – and builds from that internal base of strength in making market participation choices.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 53

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Cosgrove suggests that physician-leaders are also more likely to “tolerate crazy ideas” (innovative ideas like the first coronary artery bypass, performed by René Favaloro at the Cleveland Clinic in the late ‘60s). The course culminates in a team-based innovation project presented to hospital leadership.

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Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Here’s what we’ve learned from three pioneering companies about how to identify, grow and retain leaders to meet today’s demands: Identify: Let them innovate. Both seek to create an environment where employees can pursue innovative business offerings to address problems that are personally meaningful.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

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. Increase workforce diversity that enables greater customer connection. Spur innovation.

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How To Diversity Teamwork Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Such is the nature of disruptive innovation, whose impact across industries continues to accelerate thanks to exponential improvements in digital and other core technologies. In late February, AT&T proposed the first two trials , which if approved will take place in West Delray Beach, FL and Carbon Hill, AL.

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Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Collaboration’s promise of greater innovation and better risk mitigation can go unfulfilled because of cultural norms that say everyone should be in agreement, be supportive, and smile all the time. To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. Collaboration is crumpling under the weight of our expectations.

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Team Teamwork Efficiency Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Last month, the FCC issued a 150-page document proposing sweeping new rules and regulations for broadband Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Providing technical back-doors for governments, however, is precisely the outcome Apple, WhatsApp, and other participants in the internet ecosystem are spending so much political capital to avoid.

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Advertising Proposal Information Content 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

If you have tried introducing a new idea into your organization or community—especially if it''s an abstract idea like sustainability, diversity, or innovativeness—you know it''s tough. When you propose a new idea, expect an intense response—from useful debate to useless sniping. Expect backlash.

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Organization Tips Metrics Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. To achieve those ends, we propose that business leaders support a new agenda, comprising seven areas of opportunity. This approach was credible as long as economic inequality was kept within reasonable bounds.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

There are many solutions that have been proposed to mitigate bias and harassment, and we’re now seeing some preliminary findings that can speak to their effectiveness. And these programs can improve participants’ job-related well-being and self-esteem. Mitigate bias, discrimination, and sexual harassment.

Policies 13

Policies Leadership Mentor Career 13

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In an era of technological advancement, it is crucial to question who benefits from these innovations. Acemoglu and Johnson propose a return to shared prosperity and urge society to harness technology for the benefit of all. They emphasize that the key lies in making machines useful to people rather than displacing them.

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Technology Proposal Simon Politics 102

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. Paul Garbett for HBR. Imagine you’re the CEO of a casual dining chain.

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Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

House and Senate committees have scheduled hearings to consider the President’s proposals, and bipartisan Congressional leadership has asked for public comment. Partners participates as a Pioneer ACO , and in our first year successfully slowed our rate of cost growth by more than 2.4% Leading Health Care Innovation.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Metrics Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea. The firm can innovate to address a tired industry business model or can recognize a megatrend before others see and act on it.

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Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In 2017 the European Commission published a report highlighting the importance of boosting innovation across the European Union, after statistics emerged highlighting the clear east-west divide in entrepreneurship across Europe. They also examine the strength of the innovation ecosystems in various countries. Fertile ground.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Human Capital Education 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

To achieve this target, however, China will need to find new engines of growth, such as consumption, innovation, and entrepreneurship, all of which are emphasized in the plan. Equally importantly, and more subtly, it creates a diversity of strategic environments which require very different approaches to strategy and execution.

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Planning Policies GDP Health Care 8