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.

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Creativity Strategic Planning Construction Politics 58

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. Yet a stark gap persists between recognizing the leadership behaviors that unlock this capability and actually practicing them.

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Diversity Career Focus Group Energy 8

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

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

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Most companies make big investments in leadership development, rolling out intensive internal programs for high potentials, sending key leaders off to expensive executive education programs, or hiring personal coaches for those moving into key positions at the top of the company. Business is moving too fast. What works instead?

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

and gender parity is still not reflected in medical leadership. For example, women do not achieve promotions or advancement to leadership positions at the same rate as their male peers. Highly qualified women do not attain independent grants, publications, and leadership positions at the same rate , either. medical schools.

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Policies Leadership Mentor Career 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The idea started with two Janssen employees, Annick Daems and Enrique Esteban, who were spearheading an initiative to increase the company’s diversity of thought and experience. Their proposal would solve a diversity and inclusion problem, but the impact on the company’s bottom line wasn’t clear.

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Innovation P&L Short-term Company 11

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. Because experience suggests that this is the most effective way of substantially increasing the representation of women in top leadership.

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Diversity Mentor System Career 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It serves vastly diverse populations: toddlers and caregivers, new immigrants, lifelong learners, famous novelists, and scholars. How to provide hyper-local services tailored to the diverse needs of its patrons while also upholding a consistent and high standard of service? The conversation would be neither bottom-up nor top down.

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Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Doctors were once viewed as ill-prepared for leadership roles because their selection and training led them to become “heroic lone healers.” The emphasis on patient-centered care and efficiency in the delivery of clinical outcomes means that physicians are now being prepared for leadership. ” But this is changing.

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Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 15

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 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Closing the Gap proposes recommendations that can be incorporated into any existing compensation system to eliminate the barriers that stand in the way of equal pay for female partners. Some of these recommendations include: Ensure there is a critical mass of diverse members on the compensation committee.

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Committee Diversity System Report 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. Fill critical skills gaps.

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How To Diversity Teamwork Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Our research shows that the same inclusive leadership behaviors that leverage diversity to drive innovation and market growth can enable managers to support individuals with disabilities. But teaching managers to display inclusive leadership behaviors is just the first step. And they are more likely to have their ideas endorsed.

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Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

But it seems every time a leadership role opens up, women are not on the slate. They can put themselves forward for leadership roles when they are qualified but have been overlooked. In our work with leadership development programs, we focus on a "small wins" approach to change. Those actions put more women in leadership roles.

Education 9

Education P&L Constraint Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Structural reform: Structural reform policies are proposed in many areas, including price formation, tax regulation, financial and investment regulation, and de-monopolization. Equally importantly, and more subtly, it creates a diversity of strategic environments which require very different approaches to strategy and execution.

Planning 8

Planning Policies GDP Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Instead, the dialogue bounces around the room as participants design a new idea together. So I propose an experiment. It's important to tap the creativity and diversity of people in your organization. In a conversation, no single person holds forth while everyone else nods sleepily. Invite new people to join in.

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Brainstorming Bottom-up Creativity Proposal 16

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. Leadership Organizational culture'

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Organization Tips Metrics Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

While my colleagues and I vehemently agree that HR’s status quo is an inhibitor to growth, it is with the same fervor that we disagree with Ram’s proposed solution. Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door?

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

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% as compared to the national benchmark.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Metrics Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. To achieve those ends, we propose that business leaders support a new agenda, comprising seven areas of opportunity. Such ecosystems even the playing field for individuals and small firms to participate in technological progress, catalyzing both employment and innovation. Essential background.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Rapid BI

OCTOBER 10, 2012

If your people don’t understand the problem that you are attempting to solve, they won’t feel any ownership of the solution you are proposing, and as a result not be proactive in the solution, undermining your attempts at progress. Leadership team employee meeting (open to all). Who needs what? ’ factor. Example plan matrix.

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Planning Strategy How To KPI 61