HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

The process of conducting a performance appraisal can be a daunting task for many managers and HR professionals. To make the most of performance appraisals, it’s important to use performance appraisal examples that reflect your organization’s culture and values.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2023

The new book, The Empathy Advantage , speaks to anyone with responsibility for recruiting, engaging, leading and retaining the next generation of workers – a workforce shaped by the pandemic that fundamentally transformed the relationship between individuals and organizations. From managing people and processes to enabling success.

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How To Open-book Learning Curve Crisis 65

The Practical Leader

JUNE 29, 2022

If we choose to thrive on turbulence and change, this time is a rare gift to participate in, and help shape, new ways of doing and being in our personal lives, organizations, communities, and societies. We then list all the external trends creating the biggest challenges for this organization.

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How To Trends Sharpe Cooper 72

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. This very nimble organization allows Amazon employees to build their own path by owning their development, their career, and their future. They get to build the future. How are you going to shake things up next?

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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. A resident of Brentwood, Tennessee and an avid supporter of the Nashville Symphony, Gipsie was an international consultant to organizations on management, quality improvement and statistical methodology.

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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 a global analysis of 2,400 companies conducted by Credit Suisse, organizations with at least one female board member yielded higher return on equity and higher net income growth than those that did not have any women on the board.

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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. To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? Michael Fraccaro: That’s an interesting way to frame it. It can help them innovate.

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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. Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. World leading researcher on the impact of leadership in organizations. World authority on project management. 100 COACHES.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

In 2005, HP split off the printer business from the personal computer business, dissolved the Customer Solutions Group (CSG) which was a sales and marketing organization that cut across product categories, and pushed selling responsibilities down to the product business units. The merging of the two businesses is a reversal for HP.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 30, 2011

Offer Appropriate Reward It is often the case that while we talk a lot about collaborative work in organizations, our reward systems frequently continue to acknowledge individual effort disproportionately. Being able not only to tolerate, but to encourage diversity of thought will go a long ways in inviting co-creation and collaboration.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

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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

MAY 19, 2015

Organizations like Kmara in Georgia, Pora in Ukraine and the April 6th movement in Egypt, received advice and training from the group and found similar success. 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.

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Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 20, 2009

This is one pretty sharp boss!) Some people seem to think fun involves organizing an event. Now more than ever leaders and managers need to get creative. In my experience, the ROI of a 15-minute exercise like the one described above (calibrated of course to match the organization’s culture) is significant.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

This preference is in sharp contrast to Gen Y’s as a whole; a recent Deloitte survey found that only 20% of Y’s overall want to be a leader in a large organization, while 70% of respondents want to launch their own organization. Diversity Hiring Talent management' In an online survey of 602 U.S.

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Company Insurance Long-term Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

Yet many other women have managed to build highly successful careers with degrees in STEM disciplines. As sponsors, they are giving meaningful advocacy to others within the organization. We, and others, have found that the cultures surrounding women in STEM have been shown, time and again, to be particularly challenging.

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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. Managers are comfortable with physical illnesses. Managing people' They don’t because they know they can’t.

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Execution Emotional Intelligence Open-book Sharpe 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Leaders of philanthropic and other non-profit organizations naturally blame the economy for this problem; and many expect things to get worse as the economic malaise drags on. For more tightly focused not-for-profits , such as the Cleveland Clinic and the network of Food Banks around the country, the decline is not nearly as sharp.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Chinese women in powerful business positions include Wei Sun Christianson , CEO of Morgan Stanley, China ; Mei Yan , Managing Director of MTV Networks, China; and Mary Ma , former CFO of Lenovo and managing director in global equity giant TPG, who recently started her own investment fund. The payoff?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

Lovers or haters of a product can be the canary in the coal mine — an early warning system that can alert managers to problems,” says Avery, who by the way has a great piece on consumer relationships in the current issue of HBR. In other words, Hermann concludes, "Comcast, the organization, is tormenting them both."

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Norton Brand Sharpe Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

And of course, there's always the small fear that we are about to do something stupid, as in the early days of email, when your colleague actually managed to message "Philips is a complete tool" to everyone in the company. They are the "buckets" into which we organize the world. So it's a double bind. It's a very soft sell.

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Marketing Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up 14

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. Studies show that bringing in decision-makers from under-represented groups will help your organization attract more similar people. Diversity Gender'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Look around your organization, at the people with whom you interact every day. A healthy range of diversity in terms of age, skin color, religious conviction, culture, or/and sexual orientation? Differences — Not Just Diversity. There are two aspects of individuality that we explore in the context of organizations.

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Leadership Pipeline Diversity Creativity Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In many organizations, in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, a certain cowboy strain of masculinity prevails, especially at the leadership level. “Loudership” is the term used by one organization we’ve worked with. A recent experiment I performed at a major STEM organization provides an example.

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Venture Capitalist Workshop Diversity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Was he suggesting that since it’s such a small organization, this national outrage was overblown? But I’ve found that managing an organization in which there are a range of passionately-held political views requires a proactive approach. Be an example for your team by respecting diverse political views.

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