HR Digest

APRIL 18, 2024

After all, in the remote realm, feedback is the fuel that propels personal and professional growth, ensuring your team stays sharp and adaptable. The Multimedia Mélange : Combat isolation and screen fatigue by embracing a diverse array of interactive and multimedia content. Still wondering how to manage remote teams?

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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. Beth Galetti: Amazon is where smart, passionate people come to obsess about customers and innovate on their behalf. Amazon operates like a series of customer-focused start-ups innovating at a fast pace.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Leadership Tip: Unwillingness to change is a dangerous mindset with sharp limitations. But it’s a dangerous mindset with sharp limitations. Amazon leadership principle number four, states that “they (leaders) seek diverse perspectives and work to disconfirm their beliefs.” Develop a Customer Obsession. Jeff Bezos.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 30, 2011

At Fortis we help businesses use natural gas more efficiently, save energy and seek innovative energy solutions to save money. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Striving to increase workplace diversity is not an empty slogan — it is a good business decision. In recent years a body of research has revealed another, more nuanced benefit of workplace diversity: nonhomogenous teams are simply smarter. Let’s dig into why diverse teams are smarter. They Focus More on Facts.

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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 help them innovate. It can empower people to take a point of view and allow the organization to benefit from diverse points of view.

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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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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program. Led social innovation at Twitter.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. However, these prescriptions for innovation at Roivant have also led to some unexpected challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Jamming has become a popular way to unearth innovations — bringing together people of many different backgrounds to creatively brainstorm around a company's competitive challenges, expressed as "problem statements." If your company is one, you may be interested in our experience at the European Center for Strategic Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

Instead, at Osteria Francescana, success set the stage for further innovation. This restaurant holds two major lessons for organizations around the world that are built on innovation and want to keep their creative edge. That success could have bred complacency , followed by failure, as so often happens in companies across industries.

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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. In STEM fields, the ideas that spark innovation are currency, markers of exceptional colleagues.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

companies, the guidelines contain helpful (although not entirely novel or innovative) recommendations such as compensating outside directors with stock, giving non-executive directors unfettered access to management, and discouraging the practice of earnings guidance. In sharp contrast to the Commonsense Principles, the U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

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. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good. Increase your R&D spending.

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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. Become an expert and keep the saw sharp – always be looking for ways to expand your knowledge, experience and command of your craft. Self-assuredness. First, you need a job to pay the bills.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

In a culture that flowers with an increasingly diverse variety, this is useful. Susan Mazur-Stommen has a category called "Hacks" in which she collects innovations. Pinterest founders Ben Silbermann , and Evan Sharp are mapping American culture. Oh, so that's what YOU mean by home. Here's what I mean.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Diversity is the crucial element for group creativity. Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. Assembling and managing diverse teams is hard work. How to get started?

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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.

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Decker Communication

MAY 19, 2022

The book Range , by David Epstein, is a goldmine of insights for improving skill, innovation, and performance. Range emphasizes that it’s the people and organizations that think more broadly and embrace diverse experiences and perspectives that will increasingly thrive.

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