HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

By recognizing and rewarding these strengths, employers can create a diverse and dynamic team. LEADERSHIP Leadership skills aren’t just about being a boss or a manager. So, if you’re an employer or a manager, consider making leadership skills a priority in your performance evaluation process.

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Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

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.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Price Sharpe 8

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. I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. Michael Fraccaro: That’s an interesting way to frame it.

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

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. Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others. Your leadership is crucial.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

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. However, it's also the MOST CRITICAL skill in senior management and leadership positions.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

In the decades since Deng Xiaoping instituted market reform, millions of women have profitably followed Deng's dictate that "to get rich is glorious." Genpact's WeMentor program and Standard Chartered's Women in Leadership Programme strengthen the pipeline of high-potential women through specific career development action plans.

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Survey Policies Globalization CFO 14

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. Otpor might have been a protest group, but it operated as if it was a startup company marketing a product. Successful movements do things that failed ones don’t.

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

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. Everyone is just like us — say, marketers or engineers. How to get started?

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